THE BATH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Sandstone Ridges setting.
Bath County has 529.2 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bath County: Northern Sandstone Ridges, Northern Shale Valleys, Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bath County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Sandstone Ridges50.8%
- Northern Shale Valleys30.3%
- Northern Dissected Ridges and Knobs18.8%
Finding your parcel within Bath County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bath County, including Hot Springs, Warm Springs, Millboro. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bath County by land and water
The Census records 5.42 square miles of water within Bath County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Bath County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bath County has 350 times the land area of nearby Warm Springs CDP (1.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alleghany County, Augusta County, Highland County, Rockbridge County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.