THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mid-Coastal Sedimentary setting.
Lincoln County has 981 square miles of land in Oregon. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Mid-Coastal Sedimentary, Coastal Uplands, Volcanics, among others.
Pacific-facing coastal mountains support moisture-loving conifers, with marine terraces, dunes and beaches along the ocean edge. Inland slopes and the immediate coast have different vegetation patterns.
Regional context: Coast Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Mid-Coastal Sedimentary42.8%
- Coastal Uplands32.1%
- Volcanics22.5%
- Coastal Lowlands2.6%
Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Newport, Rose Lodge, Lincoln City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 213.6 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 17.9% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 17.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 441.3 times the land area of nearby Toledo city (2.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Benton County, Lane County, Polk County, Tillamook County within Oregon. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

