THE CHESHIRE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Worcester/Monadnock Plateau setting.
Cheshire County has 706.7 square miles of land in New Hampshire. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Cheshire County: Worcester/Monadnock Plateau, Sunapee Uplands, Vermont Piedmont, 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
Cheshire County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Worcester/Monadnock Plateau59.7%
- Sunapee Uplands31.6%
- Vermont Piedmont4.8%
- Connecticut Valley2.2%
- Northern Connecticut Valley1.7%
Northeastern Coastal Zone in Cheshire County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cheshire County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cheshire County, including Winchester, Stoddard, Chesterfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cheshire County by land and water
The Census records 22.2 square miles of water within Cheshire County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Cheshire County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cheshire County has 418.9 times the land area of nearby Marlborough CDP (1.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hillsborough County, Sullivan County within New Hampshire. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

