THE RANDOLPH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Slate Belt setting.
Randolph County has 782.3 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Randolph County: Carolina Slate Belt, Southern Outer 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
Randolph County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Slate Belt82.4%
- Southern Outer Piedmont17.6%
Finding your parcel within Randolph County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Randolph County, including High Point, Asheboro, Trinity. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Randolph County by land and water
The Census records 7.61 square miles of water within Randolph County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Randolph County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Randolph County has 34.5 times the land area of nearby Asheboro city (22.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alamance County, Chatham County, Davidson County, Guilford County, Montgomery County, Moore County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

