THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Delaware River Terraces and Uplands setting.
Cumberland County has 483.4 square miles of land in New Jersey. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cumberland County: Delaware River Terraces and Uplands, Pine Barrens, Inner Coastal Plain.
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
Cumberland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Delaware River Terraces and Uplands45.9%
- Pine Barrens34.1%
- Inner Coastal Plain20%
Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens in Cumberland County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cumberland County
The atlas lists 50 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cumberland County, including Maurice River, Vineland, Downe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cumberland County by land and water
The Census records 194.5 square miles of water within Cumberland County, or 28.7% of its total area. That share is close to Cumberland County’s 28.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cumberland County has 68.8 times the land area of nearby Centre Grove CDP (7.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atlantic County, Cape May County, Gloucester County, Salem County within New Jersey. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.