THE BOONE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dissected Appalachian Plateau setting.
Boone County has 502.4 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Boone County is Dissected Appalachian Plateau.
A rugged, deeply cut plateau of sandstone, shale and related rocks supports extensive forest. High hills and low mountains distinguish this Appalachian landscape from smoother neighboring regions.
Regional context: Central Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Boone County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Boone County, including Madison, Comfort, Greenview. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Boone County by land and water
The Census records 1.66 square miles of water within Boone County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Boone County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Boone County has 840.1 times the land area of nearby Van CDP (0.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kanawha County, Lincoln County, Logan County, Raleigh County, Wyoming County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

