THE STARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Stark County has 574.9 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Stark County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Summit Interlobate Area, Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin.
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
Stark County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain49.5%
- Summit Interlobate Area27.4%
- Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin23.1%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Stark County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Stark County
The atlas lists 48 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stark County, including Jackson, Marlboro, Osnaburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stark County by land and water
The Census records 5.25 square miles of water within Stark County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Stark County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stark County has 21.9 times the land area of nearby Canton city (26.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Columbiana County, Holmes County, Mahoning County, Portage County, Summit County, Tuscarawas County, Wayne County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

