THE BUCKINGHAM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Inner Piedmont setting.
Buckingham County has 579.6 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Buckingham County: Northern Inner Piedmont, 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
Buckingham County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Inner Piedmont96.6%
- Northern Outer Piedmont2.5%
- Triassic Basins0.9%
Finding your parcel within Buckingham County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Buckingham County, including Yogaville, Buckingham Courthouse, Dillwyn. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Buckingham County by land and water
The Census records 3.83 square miles of water within Buckingham County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Buckingham County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Buckingham County has 519.8 times the land area of nearby Buckingham Courthouse CDP (1.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Albemarle County, Appomattox County, Cumberland County, Fluvanna County, Nelson County, Prince Edward County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

