THE NASSAU COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sea Island Flatwoods setting.
Nassau County has 648.7 square miles of land in Florida. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Nassau County: Sea Island Flatwoods, Sea Islands/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
Nassau County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sea Island Flatwoods72.6%
- Sea Islands/Coastal Marsh27.4%
Finding your parcel within Nassau County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nassau County, including Yulee, Nassau Village-Ratliff, Fernandina Beach. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nassau County by land and water
The Census records 77.2 square miles of water within Nassau County, or 10.6% of its total area. That share is close to Nassau County’s 10.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nassau County has 353.5 times the land area of nearby Callahan town (1.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baker County, Duval County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

