It contains subdivisions, farms, small shopping centers, churches, silver mine (now closed), and transmitters for many of the area's television and radio stations.

As one approaches Floyds Knobs from the southeast, The Knobstone or Siltstone Escarpment rises 400–850 feet above the Ohio River floodplain along the northwestern edge of New Albany, Indiana.

[7] Floyds Knobs is home to PGA golfer Fuzzy Zoeller, as well as Terraria developers Re-Logic.

Floyds Knobs is located four miles northwest of the Ohio River and downtown New Albany.

The geographical area is rolling those topography with a large bluff rising over 750 feet above the lower New Albany, Indiana.