THE CASWELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Inner Piedmont setting.
Caswell County has 425.5 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Caswell County: Northern Inner Piedmont, Southern Outer Piedmont.
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
Caswell County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Inner Piedmont55.8%
- Southern Outer Piedmont44.2%
Finding your parcel within Caswell County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caswell County, including Yanceyville, Milton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caswell County by land and water
The Census records 3.2 square miles of water within Caswell County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Caswell County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caswell County has 63 times the land area of nearby Yanceyville town (6.75 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alamance County, Orange County, Person County, Rockingham County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

