THE BALDWIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Baldwin County has 258.7 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Baldwin County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Sand Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Baldwin County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont63.5%
- Sand Hills33.5%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces3%
Southeastern Plains in Baldwin 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 Baldwin County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Baldwin County, including Milledgeville, Hardwick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Baldwin County by land and water
The Census records 9.58 square miles of water within Baldwin County, or 3.6% of its total area. That share is close to Baldwin County’s 3.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Baldwin County has 53.2 times the land area of nearby Hardwick CDP (4.86 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hancock County, Jones County, Putnam County, Washington County, Wilkinson County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

