THE MADISON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Darby Plains setting.
Madison County has 466.7 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Madison 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
Madison County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Darby Plains97.8%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains2.2%
Finding your parcel within Madison County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Madison County, including Range, Jefferson, Union. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Madison County by land and water
The Census records 0.82 square miles of water within Madison County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Madison County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Madison County has 55.6 times the land area of nearby London city (8.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Champaign County, Clark County, Fayette County, Franklin County, Greene County, Pickaway County, Union County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

