THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Montgomery County has 461.4 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Mad River Interlobate Area.
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
Montgomery County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains98.3%
- Mad River Interlobate Area1.7%
Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 34 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Dayton, German, Clay. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 2.89 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 211.2 times the land area of nearby Drexel CDP (2.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Clark County, Darke County, Greene County, Miami County, Preble County, Warren County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

