THE TIOGA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Tioga County has 518.8 square miles of land in New York. The mapped landscape region in Tioga 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 Tioga County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tioga County, including Owego, Candor, Barton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tioga County by land and water
The Census records 4.26 square miles of water within Tioga County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Tioga County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tioga County has 5.5 times the land area of nearby Candor town (95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broome County, Chemung County, Cortland County, Tompkins County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

