THE CAMDEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes setting.
Camden County has 240.3 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Camden County: Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes, Swamps and Peatlands.
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
Camden County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes74.2%
- Swamps and Peatlands25.8%
Finding your parcel within Camden County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Camden County, including Elizabeth City, South Mills, Camden. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Camden County by land and water
The Census records 69.9 square miles of water within Camden County, or 22.5% of its total area. That share is close to Camden County’s 22.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Camden County has 152.2 times the land area of nearby Camden CDP (1.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Currituck County, Gates County, Pasquotank County, Tyrrell County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

