THE AMELIA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Outer Piedmont setting.
Amelia County has 355.4 square miles of land in Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Amelia County: Northern Outer Piedmont, Triassic Basins.
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
Amelia County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Outer Piedmont94.4%
- Triassic Basins5.6%
Finding your parcel within Amelia County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Amelia County, including Amelia Court House. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Amelia County by land and water
The Census records 3.16 square miles of water within Amelia County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Amelia County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Amelia County has 94.3 times the land area of nearby Amelia Court House CDP (3.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chesterfield County, Cumberland County, Dinwiddie County, Nottoway County, Powhatan County, Prince Edward County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

