THE VENANGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau setting.
Venango County has 674.3 square miles of land in Pennsylvania. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Venango County: Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau, Pittsburgh Low Plateau, Low Lime Drift Plain.
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
Venango County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Unglaciated High Allegheny Plateau42.2%
- Pittsburgh Low Plateau39.5%
- Low Lime Drift Plain18.3%
Western Allegheny Plateau in Venango County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Erie Drift Plain in Venango County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Venango County
The atlas lists 36 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Venango County, including Cranberry, Rockland, President. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Venango County by land and water
The Census records 8.55 square miles of water within Venango County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Venango County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Venango County has 411.1 times the land area of nearby Woodland Heights CDP (1.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Clarion County, Crawford County, Forest County, Mercer County, Warren County within Pennsylvania. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

