THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Coastal Plain setting.
Greene County has 266.7 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Rolling Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Greene County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Coastal Plain81.5%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces18.5%
Finding your parcel within Greene County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Snow Hill, Maury, Walstonburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 0.47 square miles of water within Greene County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 173.2 times the land area of nearby Snow Hill town (1.54 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lenoir County, Pitt County, Wayne County, Wilson County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

