THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Permian Hills setting.
Greene County has 575.9 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Permian Hills, 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
Greene County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Permian Hills74.6%
- Monongahela Transition Zone25.4%
Finding your parcel within Greene County
The atlas lists 40 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Richhill, Center, Franklin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 2.05 square miles of water within Greene County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 14.2 times the land area of nearby Franklin township (40.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fayette County, Washington County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.