THE MORROW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Morrow County has 406.1 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Morrow County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Clayey High Lime Till Plains, 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
Morrow County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain53.5%
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains45.6%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains0.9%
Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Morrow 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 Morrow County
The atlas lists 27 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Morrow County, including Gilead, Congress, North Bloomfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Morrow County by land and water
The Census records 1.09 square miles of water within Morrow County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Morrow County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Morrow County has 1,599 times the land area of nearby Hidden Lakes CDP (0.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Delaware County, Knox County, Marion County, Richland County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

