THE LICKING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Licking County has 682.4 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Licking County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin, Loamy High Lime Till Plains.
Low rounded hills, glacial moraines, kettles and wetland areas define the Erie Drift Plain. Its terrain is more varied than nearby flatter farming regions and less rugged than the unglaciated plateaus.
Regional context: Erie Drift Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Licking County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain55.8%
- Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin24.9%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains19.3%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Licking County
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Read the regional source ↗Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Licking County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Licking County
The atlas lists 49 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Licking County, including Union, Pataskala, Hartford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Licking County by land and water
The Census records 4.92 square miles of water within Licking County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Licking County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Licking County has 105.9 times the land area of nearby Newark township (6.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coshocton County, Delaware County, Fairfield County, Franklin County, Knox County, Muskingum County, Perry County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

