THE SUMMIT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Summit Interlobate Area setting.
Summit County has 412.7 square miles of land in Ohio. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Summit County: Summit Interlobate Area, 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
Summit County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Summit Interlobate Area46.5%
- Low Lime Drift Plain33.3%
- Erie Gorges20.2%
Finding your parcel within Summit County
The atlas lists 36 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Summit County, including Akron, Green, Cuyahoga Falls. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Summit County by land and water
The Census records 7.33 square miles of water within Summit County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Summit County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Summit County has 6.7 times the land area of nearby Akron city (61.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cuyahoga County, Geauga County, Medina County, Portage County, Stark County, Wayne County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

