THE BARROW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Barrow County has 161.1 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Barrow County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Southern Inner Piedmont.
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
Barrow County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont99.8%
- Southern Inner Piedmont0.2%
Finding your parcel within Barrow County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Barrow County, including Winder, Braselton, Auburn. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Barrow County by land and water
The Census records 1.83 square miles of water within Barrow County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Barrow County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Barrow County has 10.8 times the land area of nearby Winder city (14.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Gwinnett County, Hall County, Jackson County, Oconee County, Walton County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

