THE PREBLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Preble County has 424.2 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Preble County: Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Whitewater 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
Preble County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains90.4%
- Whitewater Interlobate Area9.6%
Finding your parcel within Preble County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Preble County, including Washington, Gratis, Lanier. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Preble County by land and water
The Census records 2.34 square miles of water within Preble County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Preble County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Preble County has 66 times the land area of nearby Eaton city (6.43 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Darke County, Montgomery County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

