THE WAWARSING LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Catskills Transition setting.
Wawarsing town has 130.5 square miles of land in Ulster County. Its Census reference point is in Catskills Transition, within Northern Allegheny Plateau.
Rolling hills, broad valleys and low mountains are mantled by glacial deposits. Sandstone, shale and siltstone underlie a mix of open land and woodland across the northern plateau.
Regional context: Northern Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Wawarsing and Ulster County
Wawarsing is associated with Ulster 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.
Wawarsing by land and water
The Census records 3.36 square miles of water within Wawarsing, or 2.5% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 3.1% recorded for Ulster County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wawarsing town has 90.9 times the land area of nearby Napanoch CDP (1.44 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

