THE SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delaware-Neversink Highlands setting.
Susquehanna County has 823.5 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Susquehanna County: Delaware-Neversink Highlands, Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Northern Sandstone Ridges, among others.
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.
Regional context: Northern Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Susquehanna County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Delaware-Neversink Highlands77.8%
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau21.4%
- Northern Sandstone Ridges0.7%
- Anthracite Subregion0.2%
Ridge and Valley in Susquehanna County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Susquehanna County
The atlas lists 46 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Susquehanna County, including Auburn, New Milford, Bridgewater. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Susquehanna County by land and water
The Census records 8.65 square miles of water within Susquehanna County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Susquehanna County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Susquehanna County has 20.1 times the land area of nearby Bridgewater township (41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bradford County, Lackawanna County, Wayne County, Wyoming County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

