THE QUEENS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland setting.
Queens County has 108.7 square miles of land in New York. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Queens County: Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland, Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Queens County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Long Island Sound Coastal Lowland79.2%
- Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes20.8%
Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens in Queens County
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Queens County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Queens County, including New York. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Queens County by land and water
The Census records 72.8 square miles of water within Queens County, or 40.1% of its total area. That share is close to Queens County’s 40.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Queens County has 36.2% of the land area of nearby New York city (300.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bronx County, Kings County, Nassau County, New York County, Richmond County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

