THE CHATTOOGA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Chattooga County has 313.3 square miles of land in Georgia. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Chattooga County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges, Southern Shale Valleys, among others.
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
Chattooga County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills57%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges20.9%
- Southern Shale Valleys13.4%
- Southern Table Plateaus6.8%
- Plateau Escarpment1.9%
Southwestern Appalachians in Chattooga County
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Chattooga County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chattooga County, including Trion, Summerville, Menlo. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chattooga County by land and water
The Census records 0.22 square miles of water within Chattooga County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Chattooga County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chattooga County has 78 times the land area of nearby Summerville city (4.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Floyd County, Walker County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

