THE RISING SUN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Uplands setting.
Rising Sun town has 1.65 square miles of land in Cecil County. Its Census reference point is in Piedmont Uplands, within Northern Piedmont.
Rounded low hills, open valleys and irregular plains form a transition between Appalachian highlands and the coastal plain. The underlying geology mixes metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Regional context: Northern Piedmont ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Rising Sun and Cecil County
Rising Sun is associated with Cecil 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.
Rising Sun by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Rising Sun, or 1.7% of its total area. It is 15.5 percentage points lower than the 17.1% recorded for Cecil County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rising Sun town has 71.2% of the land area of nearby Port Deposit town (2.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.