THE DAVIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Davie County has 263.7 square miles of land in North Carolina. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Davie County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Northern Inner Piedmont, Triassic Basins.
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
Davie County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont81.4%
- Northern Inner Piedmont13.7%
- Triassic Basins4.9%
Finding your parcel within Davie County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Davie County, including Mocksville, Advance, Bermuda Run. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Davie County by land and water
The Census records 2.9 square miles of water within Davie County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Davie County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Davie County has 33.4 times the land area of nearby Mocksville town (7.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Davidson County, Forsyth County, Iredell County, Rowan County, Yadkin County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

