Garland is bounded north by Dexter, eat by Charleston, south by Exeter and west by Dexter. It is in touch with Sangerville on the northwest, with Atkinson on the 16 northeast, with Corinth on the southeast and Corinna on the southwest.

Measuring from east to west it is very near the center of the state.

It occupies a central site between the northern and southern limits of the inhabited section of the State.

It covers an area of thirty-six square miles. The southerly half of the town in moderately level. Its soil is well adapted to the crops common to central Maine. Its northerly section is traversed from east to west by an elevated range of land about three hundred feet above the level of the southern section and it was originally covered by a remarkable heavy forest growth of bass, beech, birch, maple, hemlock and spruce. In the wheat-growing period it was noted for its excellent crops of wheat. At present time, while crops are common to this section of the State are successfully cultivated, it exceeds in its hay-producing and grazing adaptation. It is an excellent dairy section of the State.

Some of the higher points of the range of land traversing the northerly section of the town are about eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, commanding a great variety of views, from the wildly picturesque to those of surpassing beauty. At north the towering forms of Katahdin, Boarstone, and Russell Mountains arrest attention, while in restful contrast, the productive farms of the Piscataquis Valley, covered in summer with growing crops and grazing herds, present a scene of rural beauty which is seldom surpassed in central Maine.

At the south the view extends to the range of hills thirty miles away, of which the Dixmont Hills are a section, and embraces the area of a dozen towns in one of the finest agricultural regions in central Maine.