THE GREENSVILLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Coastal Plain setting.
Greensville County has 295.4 square miles of land in Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Greensville County: Rolling Coastal Plain, Northern Outer Piedmont.
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.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Greensville County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Coastal Plain65.9%
- Northern Outer Piedmont34.1%
Piedmont in Greensville County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Greensville County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greensville County, including Jarratt. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greensville County by land and water
The Census records 1.6 square miles of water within Greensville County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Greensville County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greensville County has 234.8 times the land area of nearby Jarratt town (1.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brunswick County, Dinwiddie County, Emporia city, Southampton County, Sussex County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

