THE MOORE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Moore County has 697.6 square miles of land in North Carolina. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Moore County: Sand Hills, Carolina Slate Belt, Triassic Basins.
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
Moore County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills58.4%
- Carolina Slate Belt25.9%
- Triassic Basins15.7%
Piedmont in Moore County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Moore County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Moore County, including Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Moore County by land and water
The Census records 8.05 square miles of water within Moore County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Moore County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Moore County has 102.4 times the land area of nearby Carthage town (6.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chatham County, Cumberland County, Harnett County, Hoke County, Lee County, Montgomery County, Randolph County, Richmond County and other counties within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

