THE COSHOCTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin setting.
Coshocton County has 563.9 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Coshocton County: Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin, Low Lime Drift Plain.
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.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Coshocton County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin97.9%
- Low Lime Drift Plain2.1%
Erie Drift Plain in Coshocton County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Coshocton County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coshocton County, including Linton, Jackson, Bedford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coshocton County by land and water
The Census records 3.52 square miles of water within Coshocton County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Coshocton County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coshocton County has 17.9 times the land area of nearby Jackson township (31.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Guernsey County, Holmes County, Knox County, Licking County, Muskingum County, Tuscarawas County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

