THE LOWER CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region has 424.1 square miles of land in Connecticut. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland, Connecticut Valley.
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
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills53.1%
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland28.3%
- Connecticut Valley18.7%
Finding your parcel within Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, including East Haddam, Haddam, Middletown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 93.1 square miles of water within Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, or 18% of its total area. That share is close to Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region’s 18%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region has 26.4 times the land area of nearby Chester town (16.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Capitol 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.

