THE CATOOSA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Catoosa County has 162.2 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Catoosa County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Sandstone Ridges.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Catoosa County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills63.4%
- Southern Shale Valleys27.3%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges9.3%
Finding your parcel within Catoosa County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Catoosa County, including Fort Oglethorpe, Ringgold, Indian Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Catoosa County by land and water
The Census records 0.3 square miles of water within Catoosa County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Catoosa County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Catoosa County has 32.2 times the land area of nearby Ringgold city (5.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Walker County, Whitfield County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.