THE DINWIDDIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Outer Piedmont setting.
Dinwiddie County has 503.8 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Dinwiddie County: Northern Outer Piedmont, Rolling Coastal Plain, 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
Dinwiddie County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Outer Piedmont68.9%
- Rolling Coastal Plain30.5%
- Triassic Basins0.6%
Southeastern Plains in Dinwiddie County
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Dinwiddie County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dinwiddie County, including Dinwiddie, McKenney. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dinwiddie County by land and water
The Census records 3.47 square miles of water within Dinwiddie County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Dinwiddie County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dinwiddie County has 99.2 times the land area of nearby Dinwiddie CDP (5.08 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Amelia County, Brunswick County, Chesterfield County, Greensville County, Nottoway County, Petersburg city, Prince George County, Sussex County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

