THE SCHOHARIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Schoharie County has 621.8 square miles of land in New York. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Schoharie County: Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Mohawk Valley, 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
Schoharie County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau66.4%
- Mohawk Valley30.2%
- Catskills Transition3.4%
Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands in Schoharie County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Schoharie County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Schoharie County, including Fulton, Gilboa, Middleburgh. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Schoharie County by land and water
The Census records 4.51 square miles of water within Schoharie County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Schoharie County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Schoharie County has 9.6 times the land area of nearby Fulton town (65 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Albany County, Delaware County, Greene County, Montgomery County, Otsego County, Schenectady County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

