THE BUTLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Butler County has 466.5 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Butler County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Pre-Wisconsinan Drift 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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Butler County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains99.9%
- Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains0.1%
Finding your parcel within Butler County
The atlas lists 34 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Butler County, including Morgan, Reily, Wayne. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Butler County by land and water
The Census records 3.54 square miles of water within Butler County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Butler County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Butler County has 520.1 times the land area of nearby New Miami village (0.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hamilton County, Montgomery County, Preble County, Warren County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

