THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Lime Drift Plain setting.
Crawford County has 1,012.4 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Low Lime Drift Plain, Mosquito Creek/Pymatuning Lowlands, Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau.
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.
Regional context: Erie Drift Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crawford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Lime Drift Plain78.1%
- Mosquito Creek/Pymatuning Lowlands21%
- Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau0.9%
North Central Appalachians in Crawford 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 Crawford County
The atlas lists 67 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Spring, Randolph, Sparta. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 25.2 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 31.5 times the land area of nearby Woodcock township (32.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Erie County, Mercer County, Venango County, Warren County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.