THE ALAMANCE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Alamance County has 423.5 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Alamance County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Carolina Slate Belt.
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Alamance County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont60.7%
- Carolina Slate Belt39.3%
Finding your parcel within Alamance County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Alamance County, including Burlington, Mebane, Graham. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Alamance County by land and water
The Census records 10.8 square miles of water within Alamance County, or 2.5% of its total area. That share is close to Alamance County’s 2.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Alamance County has 38.3 times the land area of nearby Graham city (11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caswell County, Chatham County, Guilford County, Orange County, Randolph County, Rockingham County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

