THE BEAVER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pittsburgh Low Plateau setting.
Beaver County has 434.7 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Beaver County: Pittsburgh Low Plateau, Low Lime Drift Plain, Monongahela Transition Zone.
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
Where the landscape changes
Beaver County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pittsburgh Low Plateau93.3%
- Low Lime Drift Plain6.4%
- Monongahela Transition Zone0.3%
Erie Drift Plain in Beaver County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Beaver County
The atlas lists 60 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Beaver County, including Hanover, New Sewickley, South Beaver. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Beaver County by land and water
The Census records 9.33 square miles of water within Beaver County, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Beaver County’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Beaver County has 475.1 times the land area of nearby Vanport township (0.92 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allegheny County, Butler County, Lawrence County, Washington County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.