THE SAGADAHOC COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Midcoast setting.
Sagadahoc County has 254 square miles of land in Maine. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Sagadahoc 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
Sagadahoc County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Midcoast80.4%
- Central Maine Embayment19.6%
Finding your parcel within Sagadahoc County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sagadahoc County, including Bowdoin, Woolwich, Bowdoinham. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sagadahoc County by land and water
The Census records 116.1 square miles of water within Sagadahoc County, or 31.4% of its total area. That share is close to Sagadahoc County’s 31.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sagadahoc County has 27.8 times the land area of nearby Bath city (9.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Androscoggin County, Cumberland County, Kennebec County, Lincoln County within Maine. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

