THE BRADFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Bradford County has 1,147.4 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bradford County: Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Glaciated High Allegheny Plateau, Delaware-Neversink Highlands.
Rolling hills, broad valleys and low mountains are mantled by glacial deposits. Sandstone, shale and siltstone underlie a mix of open land and woodland across the northern plateau.
Regional context: Northern Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bradford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau85.1%
- Glaciated High Allegheny Plateau11.2%
- Delaware-Neversink Highlands3.7%
North Central Appalachians in Bradford County
Forest-covered plateau surfaces, high hills and low mountains are underlain by layered sedimentary rocks. Most of this region escaped continental glaciation, leaving deeply cut upland terrain.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Bradford County
The atlas lists 55 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bradford County, including Overton, Leroy, Wilmot. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bradford County by land and water
The Census records 13.6 square miles of water within Bradford County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Bradford County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bradford County has 130.4 times the land area of nearby North Towanda township (8.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lycoming County, Sullivan County, Susquehanna County, Tioga County, Wyoming County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

