THE ORANGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Inner Piedmont setting.
Orange County has 340.5 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Orange County: Northern Inner Piedmont, Piedmont Uplands, Triassic Lowlands.
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
Orange County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Inner Piedmont61.7%
- Piedmont Uplands30%
- Triassic Lowlands8.3%
Northern Piedmont in Orange County
Rounded low hills, open valleys and irregular plains form a transition between Appalachian highlands and the coastal plain. The underlying geology mixes metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Orange County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Orange County, including Lake of the Woods, Orange, Barboursville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Orange County by land and water
The Census records 2.7 square miles of water within Orange County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Orange County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Orange County has 205.6 times the land area of nearby Unionville CDP (1.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Albemarle County, Culpeper County, Greene County, Louisa County, Madison County, Spotsylvania County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

