THE CHEHALIS LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cowlitz/Newaukum Prairie Floodplains setting.
Chehalis city has 5.81 square miles of land in Lewis County. Its Census reference point is in Cowlitz/Newaukum Prairie Floodplains, within Puget Lowland.
A glacial lowland surrounds Puget Sound with islands, bays, peninsulas and rolling terrain. Moraines, outwash plains and river terraces create a varied setting beneath the region's maritime climate.
Regional context: Puget Lowland ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Chehalis and Lewis County
Chehalis is associated with Lewis County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Chehalis by land and water
The Census records 0.08 square miles of water within Chehalis, or 1.3% of its total area. It is 0.1 percentage points lower than the 1.4% recorded for Lewis County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chehalis city has 74.4% of the land area of nearby Centralia city (7.81 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

