THE UPPER CHICHESTER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Uplands setting.
Upper Chichester township has 6.69 square miles of land in Delaware County. Its Census reference point is in Piedmont Uplands, within Northern Piedmont.
Rounded low hills, open valleys and irregular plains form a transition between Appalachian highlands and the coastal plain. The underlying geology mixes metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Regional context: Northern Piedmont ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Upper Chichester and Delaware County
Upper Chichester is associated with Delaware County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Upper Chichester by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Upper Chichester, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 3.4 percentage points lower than the 3.6% recorded for Delaware County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Upper Chichester township has 5.4 times the land area of nearby Boothwyn CDP (1.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.