THE BEN HILL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains setting.
Ben Hill County has 250.1 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ben Hill County: Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ben Hill County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains98.1%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces1.9%
Finding your parcel within Ben Hill County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ben Hill County, including Fitzgerald. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ben Hill County by land and water
The Census records 3.79 square miles of water within Ben Hill County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Ben Hill County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ben Hill County has 27.6 times the land area of nearby Fitzgerald city (9.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffee County, Irwin County, Telfair County, Turner County, Wilcox County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.