THE HARRISON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Harrison County has 416 square miles of land in West Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Harrison 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
Harrison County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone78%
- Permian Hills22%
Finding your parcel within Harrison County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Harrison County, including Bridgeport, Clarksburg, Enterprise. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Harrison County by land and water
The Census records 0.51 square miles of water within Harrison County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Harrison County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Harrison County has 40.1 times the land area of nearby Clarksburg city (10.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barbour County, Doddridge County, Lewis County, Marion County, Taylor County, Upshur County, Wetzel County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

