THE PLYMOUTH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Sierran Foothills setting.
Plymouth city has 2.65 square miles of land in Amador County. Its Census reference point is in Northern Sierran Foothills, within Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains.
Oak woodland, chaparral and grassland occupy foothills and low coastal mountains around the Central Valley. Narrow agricultural valleys interrupt this landscape of dry summers and wetter winters.
Regional context: Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Plymouth and Amador County
Plymouth is associated with Amador County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Plymouth by land and water
The Census records 0.01 square miles of water within Plymouth, or 0.5% of its total area. It is 1.4 percentage points lower than the 1.9% recorded for Amador County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Plymouth city has 81.3% of the land area of nearby Drytown CDP (3.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

