THE CAROLINE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delmarva Uplands setting.
Caroline County has 319.4 square miles of land in Maryland. The mapped landscape region in Caroline County is Delmarva Uplands.
Low coastal plains contain terraces, estuaries, marshes and barrier islands. Unconsolidated sediments underlie this varied coastal setting, with forest patterns changing near streams and low-lying areas.
Regional context: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Caroline County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caroline County, including Denton, Federalsburg, Ridgely. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caroline County by land and water
The Census records 6.48 square miles of water within Caroline County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Caroline County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caroline County has 60.6 times the land area of nearby Denton town (5.27 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County within Maryland. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

