THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mohawk Valley setting.
Montgomery County has 403.1 square miles of land in New York. The mapped landscape region in Montgomery County is Mohawk Valley.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Minden, Root, Florida. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 7.19 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 11.6 times the land area of nearby Mohawk town (34.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fulton County, Herkimer County, Otsego County, Saratoga County, Schenectady County, Schoharie County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

