THE STAFFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Coastal Plain setting.
Stafford County has 268.5 square miles of land in Virginia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Stafford County: Rolling Coastal Plain, Northern Inner Piedmont, 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
Stafford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Coastal Plain48.5%
- Northern Inner Piedmont42.7%
- Northern Outer Piedmont8.7%
Piedmont in Stafford 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 Stafford County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stafford County, including Quantico Base, Camp Barrett, Falmouth. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stafford County by land and water
The Census records 11.6 square miles of water within Stafford County, or 4.1% of its total area. That share is close to Stafford County’s 4.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stafford County has 111 times the land area of nearby Embrey Mill CDP (2.42 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caroline County, Culpeper County, Fauquier County, Fredericksburg city, King George County, Prince William County, Spotsylvania County within Virginia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

