THE TAYLOR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Gulf Coast Flatwoods setting.
Taylor County has 1,043.3 square miles of land in Florida. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Taylor 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
Taylor County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Gulf Coast Flatwoods95.5%
- Big Bend Coastal Marsh4.5%
Finding your parcel within Taylor County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Taylor County, including Perry, Steinhatchee. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Taylor County by land and water
The Census records 468.6 square miles of water within Taylor County, or 31% of its total area. That share is close to Taylor County’s 31%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Taylor County has 111.6 times the land area of nearby Perry city (9.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dixie County, Jefferson County, Lafayette County, Madison County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

