THE PLEASANTS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Permian Hills setting.
Pleasants County has 130.1 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Pleasants County is 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
Finding your parcel within Pleasants County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pleasants County, including St. Marys, Belmont. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pleasants County by land and water
The Census records 4.43 square miles of water within Pleasants County, or 3.3% of its total area. That share is close to Pleasants County’s 3.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pleasants County has 127.1 times the land area of nearby St. Marys city (1.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ritchie County, Tyler County, Wood County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

