THE NEW ALBANY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
New Albany city has 21.7 square miles of land in Franklin County, Licking County. Its Census reference point is in Loamy High Lime Till Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
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.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
New Albany intersects 2 county geographies: Franklin County, Licking County. A New Albany mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
New Albany by land and water
The Census records 0.19 square miles of water within New Albany, or 0.9% of its total area. It is 8 percentage points lower than the 8.8% recorded for Ohio. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, New Albany city has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Plain township (19.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

