THE WOOD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Permian Hills setting.
Wood County has 366.5 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Wood 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 Wood County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wood County, including Parkersburg, Blennerhassett, Lubeck. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wood County by land and water
The Census records 10.3 square miles of water within Wood County, or 2.7% of its total area. That share is close to Wood County’s 2.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wood County has 238.6 times the land area of nearby Mineralwells CDP (1.54 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jackson County, Pleasants County, Ritchie County, Wirt County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

