THE WEBSTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Forested Hills and Mountains setting.
Webster County has 553.5 square miles of land in West Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Webster County: Forested Hills and Mountains, Dissected Appalachian Plateau.
A rugged, deeply cut plateau of sandstone, shale and related rocks supports extensive forest. High hills and low mountains distinguish this Appalachian landscape from smoother neighboring regions.
Regional context: Central Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Webster County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Forested Hills and Mountains98.4%
- Dissected Appalachian Plateau1.6%
Finding your parcel within Webster County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Webster County, including Cowen, Addison (Webster Springs), Camden-on-Gauley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Webster County by land and water
The Census records 2.76 square miles of water within Webster County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Webster County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Webster County has 1,227.2 times the land area of nearby Addison (Webster Springs) town (0.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Braxton County, Greenbrier County, Lewis County, Nicholas County, Pocahontas County, Randolph County, Upshur County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

