THE TUSCARAWAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin setting.
Tuscarawas County has 567.6 square miles of land in Ohio. The mapped landscape region in Tuscarawas County is Unglaciated Upper Muskingum Basin.
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
Finding your parcel within Tuscarawas County
The atlas lists 44 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tuscarawas County, including Dover, Salem, Rush. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tuscarawas County by land and water
The Census records 3.96 square miles of water within Tuscarawas County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Tuscarawas County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tuscarawas County has 24 times the land area of nearby York township (23.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Coshocton County, Guernsey County, Harrison County, Holmes County, Stark County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

