THE CAPITOL PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Connecticut Valley setting.
Capitol Planning Region has 1,027.4 square miles of land in Connecticut. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Capitol Planning Region: Connecticut Valley, Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Lower Worcester Plateau/Eastern Connecticut Upland, among others.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Capitol Planning Region intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Connecticut Valley56.9%
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills28.4%
- Lower Worcester Plateau/Eastern Connecticut Upland11%
- Berkshire Transition3.8%
Northeastern Highlands in Capitol Planning Region
Forested hills and mountains span northern New England, the Adirondacks and higher Catskills. Glacial lakes and steep streams accompany a transition between northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Capitol Planning Region
The atlas lists 71 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Capitol Planning Region, including Stafford, Glastonbury, Mansfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Capitol Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 18.8 square miles of water within Capitol Planning Region, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Capitol Planning Region’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Capitol Planning Region has 36.6 times the land area of nearby South Windsor town (28.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region within Connecticut. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.