THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lansing Loamy Plain setting.
Livingston County has 565.3 square miles of land in Michigan. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Livingston County: Lansing Loamy Plain, Interlobate Dead Ice Moraines, Clayey High Lime Till Plains.
Lakes, marshes and complex glacial deposits create a varied landscape around southern Michigan and northern Indiana. Moraines, beach ridges, dunes, kettles and meltwater channels occur across the region.
Regional context: Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Livingston County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lansing Loamy Plain57.4%
- Interlobate Dead Ice Moraines39.8%
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains2.9%
Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Livingston County
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Livingston County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Livingston County, including Cohoctah, Conway, Deerfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Livingston County by land and water
The Census records 20.1 square miles of water within Livingston County, or 3.4% of its total area. That share is close to Livingston County’s 3.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Livingston County has 113.3 times the land area of nearby Howell city (4.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Genesee County, Ingham County, Jackson County, Oakland County, Shiawassee County, Washtenaw County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

