THE APPLING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bacon Terraces setting.
Appling County has 508.3 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Appling County: Bacon Terraces, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Appling County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bacon Terraces69.2%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains27.1%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces3.7%
Southeastern Plains in Appling County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Appling County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Appling County, including Baxley, Graham, Surrency. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Appling County by land and water
The Census records 4 square miles of water within Appling County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Appling County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Appling County has 62.2 times the land area of nearby Baxley city (8.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bacon County, Jeff Davis County, Pierce County, Tattnall County, Toombs County, Wayne County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

