THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Flatwoods setting.
Brunswick County has 849.5 square miles of land in North Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Brunswick County: Carolina Flatwoods, Swamps and Peatlands, Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, 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
Brunswick County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Flatwoods77%
- Swamps and Peatlands10.1%
- Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes7.3%
- Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces5.6%
Finding your parcel within Brunswick County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Brunswick County, including Leland, Boiling Spring Lakes, Oak Island. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Brunswick County by land and water
The Census records 200 square miles of water within Brunswick County, or 19.1% of its total area. That share is close to Brunswick County’s 19.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Brunswick County has 1,379 times the land area of nearby Bolivia town (0.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Columbus County, New Hanover County, Pender County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

