THE QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delmarva Uplands setting.
Queen Anne's County has 371.7 square miles of land in Maryland. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Queen Anne's County: Delmarva Uplands, Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes.
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
Where the landscape changes
Queen Anne's County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Delmarva Uplands77.7%
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes22.3%
Finding your parcel within Queen Anne's County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Queen Anne's County, including Stevensville, Grasonville, Chester. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Queen Anne's County by land and water
The Census records 139 square miles of water within Queen Anne's County, or 27.2% of its total area. That share is close to Queen Anne's County’s 27.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Queen Anne's County has 135.8 times the land area of nearby Centreville town (2.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, Kent County, Talbot County within Maryland. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

