THE MEDINA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Medina County has 421.5 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Medina County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Erie Gorges.
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
Medina County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain98.1%
- Erie Gorges1.9%
Finding your parcel within Medina County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Medina County, including Hinckley, Chatham, Liverpool. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Medina County by land and water
The Census records 1.62 square miles of water within Medina County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Medina County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Medina County has 36.4 times the land area of nearby Medina city (11.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ashland County, Cuyahoga County, Lorain County, Summit County, Wayne County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

