THE PORTAGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Portage County has 487.5 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Portage County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Summit Interlobate Area, Mosquito Creek/Pymatuning Lowlands.
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
Portage County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain63.9%
- Summit Interlobate Area29.6%
- Mosquito Creek/Pymatuning Lowlands6.4%
Finding your parcel within Portage County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Portage County, including Randolph, Shalersville, Rootstown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Portage County by land and water
The Census records 16.6 square miles of water within Portage County, or 3.3% of its total area. That share is close to Portage County’s 3.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Portage County has 86.8 times the land area of nearby Ravenna city (5.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Mahoning County, Stark County, Summit County, Trumbull County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.