THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has 412.8 square miles of land in Connecticut. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Naugatuck Valley Planning Region: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Connecticut Valley, Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland.
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
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills85.5%
- Connecticut Valley13.8%
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland0.7%
Finding your parcel within Naugatuck Valley Planning Region
The atlas lists 27 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, including Southbury, Woodbury, Cheshire. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 8.78 square miles of water within Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Naugatuck Valley Planning Region’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has 23.2 times the land area of nearby Middlebury town (17.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Capitol Planning Region, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Western Connecticut Planning Region within Connecticut. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.