THE WYOMING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cattaraugus Hills setting.
Wyoming County has 592.7 square miles of land in New York. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Wyoming County: Cattaraugus Hills, Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges, among others.
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
Wyoming County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cattaraugus Hills51.8%
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau24.6%
- Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges20.9%
- Ontario Lowlands2.7%
Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands in Wyoming 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 Wyoming County
The atlas lists 27 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wyoming County, including Bennington, Sheldon, Java. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wyoming County by land and water
The Census records 3.51 square miles of water within Wyoming County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Wyoming County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wyoming County has 16.7 times the land area of nearby Orangeville town (35.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Erie County, Genesee County, Livingston County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

