THE BAKER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Okefenokee Plains setting.
Baker County has 585.2 square miles of land in Florida. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Baker County: Okefenokee Plains, Sea Island Flatwoods, Okefenokee Swamp.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Baker County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Okefenokee Plains51.8%
- Sea Island Flatwoods24.5%
- Okefenokee Swamp23.7%
Finding your parcel within Baker County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Baker County, including Macclenny, Glen St. Mary. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Baker County by land and water
The Census records 3.74 square miles of water within Baker County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Baker County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Baker County has 1,277.8 times the land area of nearby Glen St. Mary town (0.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bradford County, Clay County, Columbia County, Duval County, Nassau County, Union County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

