THE HENRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Inner Piedmont setting.
Henry County has 382.4 square miles of land in Virginia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Henry County: 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
Henry County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Inner Piedmont99.8%
- Triassic Basins0.2%
Finding your parcel within Henry County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Henry County, including Horse Pasture, Collinsville, Sandy Level. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Henry County by land and water
The Census records 2.04 square miles of water within Henry County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Henry County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Henry County has 39.7 times the land area of nearby Horse Pasture CDP (9.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Franklin County, Martinsville city, Patrick County, Pittsylvania County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

