THE GOOCHLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Outer Piedmont setting.
Goochland County has 282 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Goochland County: Northern Outer Piedmont, Northern Inner 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
Goochland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Outer Piedmont87.1%
- Northern Inner Piedmont7.2%
- Triassic Basins5.7%
Finding your parcel within Goochland County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Goochland County, including Goochland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Goochland County by land and water
The Census records 8.48 square miles of water within Goochland County, or 2.9% of its total area. That share is close to Goochland County’s 2.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Goochland County has 54.1 times the land area of nearby Goochland CDP (5.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chesterfield County, Cumberland County, Fluvanna County, Hanover County, Henrico County, Louisa County, Powhatan County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

