THE PITT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods setting.
Pitt County has 652.4 square miles of land in North Carolina. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Pitt County: Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods, Rolling Coastal Plain, Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
Low coastal plains contain terraces, estuaries, marshes and barrier islands. Unconsolidated sediments underlie this varied coastal setting, with forest patterns changing near streams and low-lying areas.
Regional context: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pitt County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods59.6%
- Rolling Coastal Plain22.4%
- Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces12.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces5.7%
Southeastern Plains in Pitt County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pitt County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pitt County, including Greenville, Winterville, Stokes. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pitt County by land and water
The Census records 3.18 square miles of water within Pitt County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Pitt County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pitt County has 17 times the land area of nearby Greenville city (38.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaufort County, Craven County, Edgecombe County, Greene County, Lenoir County, Martin County, Wilson County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

