THE WALDO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Maine Embayment setting.
Waldo County has 730.2 square miles of land in Maine. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Waldo County: Central Maine Embayment, Midcoast.
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
Waldo County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Maine Embayment71.1%
- Midcoast28.9%
Finding your parcel within Waldo County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Waldo County, including Montville, Palermo, Unity. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Waldo County by land and water
The Census records 134.2 square miles of water within Waldo County, or 15.5% of its total area. That share is close to Waldo County’s 15.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Waldo County has 37.8 times the land area of nearby Waldo town (19.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hancock County, Kennebec County, Knox County, Lincoln County, Penobscot County, Somerset County within Maine. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.