THE JACKSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dougherty Plain setting.
Jackson County has 918.3 square miles of land in Florida. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jackson County: Dougherty Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Jackson County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Dougherty Plain97.9%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces2.1%
Finding your parcel within Jackson County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jackson County, including Marianna, Grand Ridge, Greenwood. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jackson County by land and water
The Census records 36.2 square miles of water within Jackson County, or 3.8% of its total area. That share is close to Jackson County’s 3.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jackson County has 48 times the land area of nearby Marianna city (19.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bay County, Calhoun County, Gadsden County, Holmes County, Liberty County, Washington County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

