THE FAYETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Darby Plains setting.
Fayette County has 406.4 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Fayette County: Darby Plains, Loamy High Lime Till 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
Fayette County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Darby Plains85.9%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains14.1%
Finding your parcel within Fayette County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fayette County, including Jefferson, Paint, Union. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fayette County by land and water
The Census records 0.65 square miles of water within Fayette County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Fayette County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fayette County has 8.4 times the land area of nearby Union township (48.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clinton County, Greene County, Highland County, Madison County, Pickaway County, Ross County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

