THE MONROE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Permian Hills setting.
Monroe County has 455.6 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Monroe County: Permian Hills, Monongahela Transition Zone.
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
Monroe County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Permian Hills80.8%
- Monongahela Transition Zone19.2%
Finding your parcel within Monroe County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Monroe County, including Center, Washington, Malaga. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Monroe County by land and water
The Census records 1.73 square miles of water within Monroe County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Monroe County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monroe County has 11 times the land area of nearby Center township (41.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Belmont County, Noble County, Washington County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

