THE CABELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Cabell County has 281 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Cabell County is Monongahela Transition Zone.
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
Finding your parcel within Cabell County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cabell County, including Huntington, Lesage, Barboursville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cabell County by land and water
The Census records 6.99 square miles of water within Cabell County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Cabell County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cabell County has 70 times the land area of nearby Barboursville village (4.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lincoln County, Mason County, Putnam County, Wayne County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

