THE BROOME COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Broome County has 705.7 square miles of land in New York. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Broome County: Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Delaware-Neversink Highlands, Catskills Transition.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Broome County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau81.4%
- Delaware-Neversink Highlands17.9%
- Catskills Transition0.8%
Finding your parcel within Broome County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Broome County, including Windsor, Sanford, Colesville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Broome County by land and water
The Census records 9.68 square miles of water within Broome County, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Broome County’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Broome County has 288.1 times the land area of nearby Chenango Bridge CDP (2.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chenango County, Cortland County, Delaware County, Tioga County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

