THE ATLANTIC COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pine Barrens setting.
Atlantic County has 555.6 square miles of land in New Jersey. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Atlantic County: Pine Barrens, Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes.
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Regional context: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Atlantic County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pine Barrens83%
- Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes17%
Finding your parcel within Atlantic County
The atlas lists 45 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Atlantic County, including Hamilton, Galloway, Egg Harbor. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Atlantic County by land and water
The Census records 116.3 square miles of water within Atlantic County, or 17.3% of its total area. That share is close to Atlantic County’s 17.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Atlantic County has 115.3 times the land area of nearby McKee City CDP (4.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Burlington County, Camden County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, Gloucester County, Ocean County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.