THE DAVIDSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Davidson County has 553 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Davidson 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
Davidson County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont61.3%
- Carolina Slate Belt38.7%
Finding your parcel within Davidson County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Davidson County, including High Point, Lexington, Thomasville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Davidson County by land and water
The Census records 14.5 square miles of water within Davidson County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Davidson County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Davidson County has 28.8 times the land area of nearby Lexington city (19.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Davie County, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Montgomery County, Randolph County, Rowan County, Stanly County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

