THE CAMERON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau setting.
Cameron County has 396.2 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. The mapped landscape region in Cameron County is Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau.
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.
Regional context: North Central Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Cameron County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cameron County, including Shippen, Gibson, Grove. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cameron County by land and water
The Census records 2.18 square miles of water within Cameron County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Cameron County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cameron County has 7.2 times the land area of nearby Lumber township (54.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clearfield County, Clinton County, Elk County, McKean County, Potter County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

