THE NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT PLANNING REGION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region has 553.9 square miles of land in Connecticut. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Lower Worcester Plateau/Eastern Connecticut Upland.
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
Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills86.8%
- Lower Worcester Plateau/Eastern Connecticut Upland13.2%
Finding your parcel within Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region
The atlas lists 32 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, including Woodstock, Killingly, Thompson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region by land and water
The Census records 9.26 square miles of water within Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region has 13.7 times the land area of nearby Pomfret town (40.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Capitol 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.