THE BLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Sandstone Ridges setting.
Bland County has 357.6 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bland County: Southern Sandstone Ridges, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Shale Valleys.
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
Bland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Sandstone Ridges68.8%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills22.2%
- Southern Shale Valleys9%
Finding your parcel within Bland County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bland County, including Bland, Bastian, Mechanicsburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bland County by land and water
The Census records 0.99 square miles of water within Bland County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Bland County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bland County has 304.4 times the land area of nearby Bastian CDP (1.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Giles County, Pulaski County, Smyth County, Tazewell County, Wythe County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

