THE TYRRELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes setting.
Tyrrell County has 390.8 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Tyrrell County: Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes, Swamps and Peatlands.
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
Tyrrell County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chesapeake-Pamlico Lowlands and Tidal Marshes51.3%
- Swamps and Peatlands48.7%
Finding your parcel within Tyrrell County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tyrrell County, including Columbia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tyrrell County by land and water
The Census records 206.4 square miles of water within Tyrrell County, or 34.6% of its total area. That share is close to Tyrrell County’s 34.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tyrrell County has 318.2 times the land area of nearby Columbia town (1.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Camden County, Currituck County, Dare County, Hyde County, Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, Washington County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

