THE FAYETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Forested Hills and Mountains setting.
Fayette County has 662 square miles of land in West Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Fayette County: Forested Hills and Mountains, 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
Where the landscape changes
Fayette County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Forested Hills and Mountains65.4%
- Dissected Appalachian Plateau34.6%
Finding your parcel within Fayette County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fayette County, including Oak Hill, Fayetteville, Powellton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fayette County by land and water
The Census records 6.75 square miles of water within Fayette County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Fayette County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fayette County has 1,572.3 times the land area of nearby Garten CDP (0.42 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Greenbrier County, Kanawha County, Nicholas County, Raleigh County, Summers County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

