PHYSICAL FEATURES
Caroline county is almost at the head of tidewater and is
thus to some extent the dividing line between the Tidewater and
Piedmont sections of the State. The county is thirty miles long
and twenty miles wide and contains approximately three hundred
and fifty thousand acres. The Rappahannock river flows on its
Northern boundary, the counties of King George and Stafford
being on the opposite side of the river. The Pamunkey and
North Anna rivers flow on the Southern boundary, Hanover
county being opposite. Essex, King and Queen and King William
counties constitute the Eastern boundary and Spotsylvania county
the Western. The county is drained by the Rappahannock, the
Mattaponi, the North Anna and Pamunkey rivers and their
tributaries, which are numerous; therefore the county is both
well drained and well watered. It is estimated that there are
not above ten thousand acres of unimprovable or waste land in
the county.
