THE CABARRUS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Cabarrus County has 361.2 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cabarrus 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
Cabarrus County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont70.6%
- Carolina Slate Belt29.4%
Finding your parcel within Cabarrus County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cabarrus County, including Concord, Kannapolis, Midland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cabarrus County by land and water
The Census records 2.7 square miles of water within Cabarrus County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Cabarrus County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cabarrus County has 5.6 times the land area of nearby Concord city (64.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Iredell County, Mecklenburg County, Rowan County, Stanly County, Union County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

