THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods setting.
Beaufort County has 832.7 square miles of land in North Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Beaufort County: Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods, Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes, Swamps and Peatlands, among others.
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
Beaufort County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods49.7%
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes42.7%
- Swamps and Peatlands4.7%
- Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces2.8%
Finding your parcel within Beaufort County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Beaufort County, including Washington, River Road, Cypress Landing. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Beaufort County by land and water
The Census records 130.1 square miles of water within Beaufort County, or 13.5% of its total area. That share is close to Beaufort County’s 13.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Beaufort County has 2,332.5 times the land area of nearby Bath town (0.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Craven County, Hyde County, Martin County, Pamlico County, Pitt County, Washington County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

