THE TYLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Permian Hills setting.
Tyler County has 256.3 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Tyler 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 Tyler County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tyler County, including Paden City, Sistersville, Middlebourne. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tyler County by land and water
The Census records 4.4 square miles of water within Tyler County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Tyler County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tyler County has 710 times the land area of nearby Middlebourne town (0.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Doddridge County, Pleasants County, Ritchie County, Wetzel County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

