THE PERSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Slate Belt setting.
Person County has 392.3 square miles of land in North Carolina. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Person County: Carolina Slate Belt, Southern Outer Piedmont, Northern Inner Piedmont.
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
Person County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Slate Belt47.1%
- Southern Outer Piedmont37.2%
- Northern Inner Piedmont15.7%
Finding your parcel within Person County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Person County, including Roxboro, Rougemont. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Person County by land and water
The Census records 12 square miles of water within Person County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Person County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Person County has 49.9 times the land area of nearby Roxboro city (7.87 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caswell County, Durham County, Granville County, Orange County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

