THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Outer Piedmont setting.
Cumberland County has 297.5 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cumberland County: Northern Outer Piedmont, Triassic Basins, Northern Inner Piedmont.
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
Cumberland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Outer Piedmont83%
- Triassic Basins10%
- Northern Inner Piedmont7%
Finding your parcel within Cumberland County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cumberland County, including Farmville, Cumberland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cumberland County by land and water
The Census records 2.29 square miles of water within Cumberland County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Cumberland County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cumberland County has 71.4 times the land area of nearby Cumberland CDP (4.17 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Amelia County, Buckingham County, Fluvanna County, Goochland 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.