THE LUCAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Oak Openings setting.
Lucas County has 339.7 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lucas County: Oak Openings, Maumee Lake Plain, Marblehead Drift/Limestone Plain.
A broad former lake plain is interrupted by old beach ridges, dunes and glacial moraines. The landscape is mostly low-relief, with important differences between sandy rises and lower ground.
Regional context: Huron/Erie Lake Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lucas County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Oak Openings58.2%
- Maumee Lake Plain41.1%
- Marblehead Drift/Limestone Plain0.7%
Finding your parcel within Lucas County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lucas County, including Toledo, Jerusalem, Oregon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lucas County by land and water
The Census records 256.2 square miles of water within Lucas County, or 43% of its total area. That share is close to Lucas County’s 43%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lucas County has 14,768.2 times the land area of nearby Harbor View village (0.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fulton County, Henry County, Ottawa County, Wood County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

