THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Montgomery County has 386.8 square miles of land in Virginia. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, Southern Sandstone Ridges, among others.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Montgomery County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills36.7%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs21.1%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges17.1%
- Southern Shale Valleys10.9%
- Southern Sedimentary Ridges8.2%
Blue Ridge in Montgomery County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Shawsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 2.42 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 225.2 times the land area of nearby Merrimac CDP (1.72 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Craig County, Floyd County, Giles County, Pulaski County, Radford city, Roanoke County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

