THE KITTERY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Gulf of Maine Coastal Lowland setting.
Kittery town has 17.8 square miles of land in York County. Its Census boundary intersects Gulf of Maine Coastal Lowland, within Northeastern Coastal Zone.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Gulf of Maine Coastal Lowland representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
Kittery and York County
Kittery is associated with York County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Kittery by land and water
The Census records 57.5 square miles of water within Kittery, or 76.3% of its total area. It is 54.4 percentage points higher than the 21.9% recorded for York County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kittery town has 9.3 times the land area of nearby Kittery Point CDP (1.91 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

