THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Midcoast setting.
Lincoln County has 455.9 square miles of land in Maine. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Midcoast, Central Maine Embayment.
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
Lincoln County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Midcoast61.7%
- Central Maine Embayment38.3%
Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Waldoboro, Jefferson, Whitefield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 243.7 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 34.8% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 34.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 131.9 times the land area of nearby Damariscotta CDP (3.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kennebec County, Knox County, Sagadahoc County, Waldo County within Maine. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.