THE POTTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau setting.
Potter County has 1,081.2 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Potter County: Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau, Glaciated Allegheny Hills, Glaciated High Allegheny Plateau, among others.
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
Where the landscape changes
Potter County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau77.5%
- Glaciated Allegheny Hills8.5%
- Glaciated High Allegheny Plateau7.1%
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau6.9%
Northern Allegheny Plateau in Potter County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Potter County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Potter County, including Wharton, Ulysses, Stewardson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Potter County by land and water
The Census records 0.22 square miles of water within Potter County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Potter County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Potter County has 32 times the land area of nearby Sweden township (33.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cameron County, Clinton County, Lycoming County, McKean County, Tioga County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

