THE MASON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Mason County has 430.8 square miles of land in West Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Mason 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
Mason County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone75.5%
- Permian Hills24.5%
Finding your parcel within Mason County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mason County, including Point Pleasant, Apple Grove, Gallipolis Ferry. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mason County by land and water
The Census records 13.9 square miles of water within Mason County, or 3.1% of its total area. That share is close to Mason County’s 3.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mason County has 1,346.1 times the land area of nearby Leon town (0.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cabell County, Jackson County, Putnam County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

