THE CLAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Clay County has 195.4 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Clay County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Coastal Plain Red Uplands, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Clay County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain47.1%
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands30%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces11.9%
- Dougherty Plain11%
Finding your parcel within Clay County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Clay County, including Fort Gaines, Bluffton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Clay County by land and water
The Census records 21.8 square miles of water within Clay County, or 10.1% of its total area. That share is close to Clay County’s 10.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clay County has 40.9 times the land area of nearby Fort Gaines city (4.78 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Early County, Quitman County, Randolph County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

