THE HANCOCK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Maine-Southern New Brunswick Plains setting.
Hancock County has 1,587.2 square miles of land in Maine. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Hancock County: Eastern Maine-Southern New Brunswick Plains, Downeast Coast, Central Maine Embayment, among others.
Forested plains and hills contain numerous glacial lakes. Spruce-fir lowlands and hardwood-covered hills create a northern landscape that is generally gentler than the highlands to the west.
Regional context: Acadian Plains and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hancock County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Maine-Southern New Brunswick Plains48.1%
- Downeast Coast47.3%
- Central Maine Embayment2.9%
- Penobscot Lowlands1.7%
Finding your parcel within Hancock County
The atlas lists 44 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hancock County, including Ellsworth, Blue Hill, Bucksport. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hancock County by land and water
The Census records 757.7 square miles of water within Hancock County, or 32.3% of its total area. That share is close to Hancock County’s 32.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hancock County has 52.8 times the land area of nearby Hancock town (30 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Knox County, Penobscot County, Waldo County, Washington County within Maine. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.