THE MONTOUR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Shale Valleys setting.
Montour County has 130.3 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Montour County: Northern Shale Valleys, Northern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys, Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, among others.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Montour County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Shale Valleys78.1%
- Northern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys10.4%
- Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs7.2%
- Northern Sandstone Ridges4.3%
Finding your parcel within Montour County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montour County, including Liberty, Anthony, Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montour County by land and water
The Census records 2 square miles of water within Montour County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Montour County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montour County has 2,413.5 times the land area of nearby Washingtonville borough (0.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Columbia County, Lycoming County, Northumberland County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.