THE ALEXANDRIA BAY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Ontario Lowlands setting.
Alexandria Bay village has 0.75 square miles of land in Jefferson County. Its Census boundary intersects Ontario Lowlands, within Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands.
Glacially shaped lowlands and irregular plains border the Great Lakes and adjacent hills. The lakes influence regional weather, while local landforms reflect both glacial deposits and former shorelines.
Regional context: Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Ontario Lowlands representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
Alexandria Bay and Jefferson County
Alexandria Bay is associated with Jefferson County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Alexandria Bay by land and water
The Census records 0.76 square miles of water within Alexandria Bay, or 50.3% of its total area. It is 18.6 percentage points higher than the 31.7% recorded for Jefferson County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Alexandria Bay village has 1% of the land area of nearby Alexandria town (72.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.