THE WYOMING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dissected Appalachian Plateau setting.
Wyoming County has 499.5 square miles of land in West Virginia. The mapped landscape region in Wyoming County is 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
Finding your parcel within Wyoming County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wyoming County, including Matheny, Bud, Glen Fork. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wyoming County by land and water
The Census records 2.35 square miles of water within Wyoming County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Wyoming County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wyoming County has 650.4 times the land area of nearby Pineville town (0.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Boone County, Logan County, McDowell County, Mercer County, Mingo County, Raleigh County within West Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

