THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains setting.
Cumberland County has 652.6 square miles of land in North Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Cumberland County: Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Rolling Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cumberland County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains26.6%
- Rolling Coastal Plain23.6%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces20.4%
- Sand Hills16.9%
- Carolina Flatwoods12.5%
Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain in Cumberland County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cumberland County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cumberland County, including Fayetteville, Spring Lake, Eastover. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cumberland County by land and water
The Census records 5.91 square miles of water within Cumberland County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Cumberland County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cumberland County has 175.9 times the land area of nearby Vander CDP (3.71 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bladen County, Harnett County, Hoke County, Moore 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.

