THE FLOYD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
New River Plateau setting.
Floyd County has 380.9 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Floyd County: New River Plateau, Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains, Southern Sedimentary Ridges.
Forested ridges, plateaus and high mountains extend through the Blue Ridge. Elevation, rainfall and sheltered coves create marked differences in forest communities across short distances.
Regional context: Blue Ridge ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Floyd County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- New River Plateau97%
- Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains1.6%
- Southern Sedimentary Ridges1.4%
Finding your parcel within Floyd County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Floyd County, including Floyd. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Floyd County by land and water
The Census records 0.85 square miles of water within Floyd County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Floyd County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Floyd County has 835.4 times the land area of nearby Floyd town (0.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Franklin County, Montgomery County, Patrick County, Pulaski County, Roanoke County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

