THE PISCATAQUIS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains setting.
Piscataquis County has 3,960.8 square miles of land in Maine. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Piscataquis County: Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains, Moosehead-Churchill Lakes, St. John Uplands, among others.
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.
Regional context: Northeastern Highlands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Piscataquis County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains28.5%
- Moosehead-Churchill Lakes27%
- St. John Uplands18.1%
- Central Foothills14.9%
- Central Maine Embayment5.8%
Acadian Plains and Hills in Piscataquis County
Forested plains and hills contain numerous glacial lakes. Spruce-fir lowlands and hardwood-covered hills create a northern landscape that is generally gentler than the highlands to the west.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Piscataquis County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Piscataquis County, including Dover-Foxcroft, Shirley, Monson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Piscataquis County by land and water
The Census records 417.2 square miles of water within Piscataquis County, or 9.5% of its total area. That share is close to Piscataquis County’s 9.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Piscataquis County has 124.4 times the land area of nearby Beaver Cove town (31.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aroostook County, Penobscot County, Somerset County within Maine. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

