THE BROOKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Brooke County has 89 square miles of land in West Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Brooke County: Monongahela Transition Zone, Pittsburgh Low Plateau, Permian Hills.
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.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Brooke County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone83%
- Pittsburgh Low Plateau9.9%
- Permian Hills7.1%
Finding your parcel within Brooke County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Brooke County, including Weirton, Hooverson Heights, Follansbee. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Brooke County by land and water
The Census records 3.38 square miles of water within Brooke County, or 3.7% of its total area. That share is close to Brooke County’s 3.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Brooke County has 91.8 times the land area of nearby Wellsburg city (0.97 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hancock County, Ohio County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

