THE NEW SHOREHAM LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cape Cod/Long Island setting.
New Shoreham town has 9.08 square miles of land in Washington County. Its Census reference point is in Cape Cod/Long Island, within Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens.
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Regional context: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
New Shoreham and Washington County
New Shoreham is associated with Washington County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
New Shoreham by land and water
The Census records 100.4 square miles of water within New Shoreham, or 91.7% of its total area. It is 50.2 percentage points higher than the 41.5% recorded for Washington County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, New Shoreham town has 6.8 times the land area of nearby Quonochontaug CDP (1.34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

