THE CHENANGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Chenango County has 893.4 square miles of land in New York. The mapped landscape region in Chenango County is Glaciated Low 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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Chenango County
The atlas lists 32 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chenango County, including Greene, Guilford, Oxford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chenango County by land and water
The Census records 5.19 square miles of water within Chenango County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Chenango County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chenango County has 25.7 times the land area of nearby Preston town (34.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broome County, Cortland County, Delaware County, Madison County, Otsego County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

