THE CURRITUCK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes setting.
Currituck County has 261.9 square miles of land in North Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Currituck County: Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes, Virginian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, Swamps and Peatlands, 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
Currituck County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes68.8%
- Virginian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes22.1%
- Swamps and Peatlands6.8%
- Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes2.3%
Finding your parcel within Currituck County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Currituck County, including Moyock, Grandy, Coinjock. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Currituck County by land and water
The Census records 264.5 square miles of water within Currituck County, or 50.2% of its total area. That share is close to Currituck County’s 50.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Currituck County has 311.8 times the land area of nearby Coinjock CDP (0.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Camden County, Dare County, Tyrrell County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

