THE COLUMBIANA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Columbiana County has 531.9 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Columbiana County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Pittsburgh Low Plateau, Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin.
Low rounded hills, glacial moraines, kettles and wetland areas define the Erie Drift Plain. Its terrain is more varied than nearby flatter farming regions and less rugged than the unglaciated plateaus.
Regional context: Erie Drift Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Columbiana County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain54.7%
- Pittsburgh Low Plateau43.2%
- Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin2.2%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Columbiana County
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Columbiana County
The atlas lists 42 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Columbiana County, including Hanover, Fairfield, Elkrun. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Columbiana County by land and water
The Census records 2.81 square miles of water within Columbiana County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Columbiana County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Columbiana County has 315.9 times the land area of nearby Lisbon village (1.68 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Jefferson County, Mahoning County, Stark County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.