THE BLADEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Flatwoods setting.
Bladen County has 875 square miles of land in North Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Bladen County: Carolina Flatwoods, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Bladen County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Flatwoods47%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains36.6%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces8.2%
- Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces7.2%
- Rolling Coastal Plain1.1%
Southeastern Plains in Bladen County
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Bladen County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bladen County, including Kelly, Elizabethtown, White Oak. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bladen County by land and water
The Census records 12.8 square miles of water within Bladen County, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Bladen County’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bladen County has 164.3 times the land area of nearby Elizabethtown town (5.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Columbus County, Cumberland County, Pender County, Robeson County, Sampson County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

