THE HOKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Hoke County has 390.2 square miles of land in North Carolina. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hoke County: Sand Hills, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, 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
Hoke County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills53.9%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains45%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces1.1%
Finding your parcel within Hoke County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hoke County, including Five Points, Rockfish, Raeford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hoke County by land and water
The Census records 1.53 square miles of water within Hoke County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Hoke County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hoke County has 261.1 times the land area of nearby Silver City CDP (1.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cumberland County, Moore County, Richmond County, Robeson County, Scotland County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

