THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Flats and Till Plains setting.
Livingston County has 532.3 square miles of land in Missouri. The mapped landscape region in Livingston County is Loess Flats and Till Plains.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Livingston County
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Livingston County, including Jackson, Chillicothe, Grand River. 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 6.25 square miles of water within Livingston County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Livingston County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Livingston County has 9.8 times the land area of nearby Chillicothe township (54.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caldwell County, Carroll County, Chariton County, Daviess County, Grundy County, Linn County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

