THE CEDAR POINT LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes setting.
Cedar Point town has 2.24 square miles of land in Carteret County. Its Census reference point is in Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, within Middle Atlantic 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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Cedar Point and Carteret County
Cedar Point is associated with Carteret County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Cedar Point by land and water
The Census records 0.07 square miles of water within Cedar Point, or 3% of its total area. It is 58.8 percentage points lower than the 61.8% recorded for Carteret County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cedar Point town has 88.6% of the land area of nearby Cape Carteret town (2.52 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.