THE DIXIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Gulf Coast Flatwoods setting.
Dixie County has 705 square miles of land in Florida. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Dixie County: Gulf Coast Flatwoods, Big Bend Coastal Marsh.
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
Dixie County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Gulf Coast Flatwoods94.7%
- Big Bend Coastal Marsh5.3%
Finding your parcel within Dixie County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dixie County, including Cross City, Horseshoe Beach. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dixie County by land and water
The Census records 338.4 square miles of water within Dixie County, or 32.4% of its total area. That share is close to Dixie County’s 32.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dixie County has 1,462.7 times the land area of nearby Horseshoe Beach town (0.48 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gilchrist County, Lafayette County, Levy County, Taylor County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

