THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Greene County has 413.6 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Mad River Interlobate Area, Darby 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
Greene County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains86.5%
- Mad River Interlobate Area7%
- Darby Plains6.5%
Finding your parcel within Greene County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Dayton, Beavercreek, Xenia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 2.63 square miles of water within Greene County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 135 times the land area of nearby Wilberforce CDP (3.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Clinton County, Fayette County, Madison County, Montgomery County, Warren County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

