THE PICKAWAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Pickaway County has 501.3 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pickaway County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Darby 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
Pickaway County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains93.7%
- Darby Plains6.3%
Finding your parcel within Pickaway County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pickaway County, including Pickaway, Scioto, Jackson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pickaway County by land and water
The Census records 5.29 square miles of water within Pickaway County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Pickaway County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pickaway County has 11.8 times the land area of nearby Jackson township (42.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fairfield County, Fayette County, Franklin County, Hocking County, Madison County, Ross County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

