THE GILMER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Gilmer County has 338.5 square miles of land in West Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Gilmer County: Monongahela Transition Zone, 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
Gilmer County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone95%
- Permian Hills5%
Finding your parcel within Gilmer County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gilmer County, including Glenville, Sand Fork. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gilmer County by land and water
The Census records 1.58 square miles of water within Gilmer County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Gilmer County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gilmer County has 340.2 times the land area of nearby Glenville town (1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Braxton County, Calhoun County, Doddridge County, Lewis County, Ritchie County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

