THE WICOMICO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delmarva Uplands setting.
Wicomico County has 374.4 square miles of land in Maryland. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wicomico 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
Wicomico County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Delmarva Uplands74%
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes26%
Finding your parcel within Wicomico County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wicomico County, including Salisbury, Fruitland, Nanticoke. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wicomico County by land and water
The Census records 25.8 square miles of water within Wicomico County, or 6.4% of its total area. That share is close to Wicomico County’s 6.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wicomico County has 27.1 times the land area of nearby Salisbury city (13.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dorchester County, Somerset County, Worcester County within Maryland. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

