THE KENT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills setting.
Kent County has 168.6 square miles of land in Rhode Island. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Kent County: Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills, Narragansett/Bristol Lowland.
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Regional context: Northeastern Coastal Zone ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kent County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern New England Coastal Plains and Hills78.8%
- Narragansett/Bristol Lowland21.2%
Finding your parcel within Kent County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kent County, including Coventry, West Greenwich, Warwick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kent County by land and water
The Census records 19.6 square miles of water within Kent County, or 10.4% of its total area. That share is close to Kent County’s 10.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kent County has 21.5 times the land area of nearby West Warwick town (7.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bristol County, Newport County, Providence County, Washington County within Rhode Island. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

