THE MEIGS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Meigs County has 430.1 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Meigs County: Monongahela Transition Zone, Permian Hills, Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau.
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
Meigs County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone53.7%
- Permian Hills38.7%
- Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau7.6%
Finding your parcel within Meigs County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Meigs County, including Chester, Rutland, Salem. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Meigs County by land and water
The Census records 2.9 square miles of water within Meigs County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Meigs County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Meigs County has 12.7 times the land area of nearby Salisbury township (34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Athens County, Gallia County, Vinton County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

