THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Crawford County has 324.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Sand Hills, Southern Outer Piedmont, Coastal Plain Red Uplands, 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
Crawford County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills46.5%
- Southern Outer Piedmont42%
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces4.5%
Piedmont in Crawford County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Crawford County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Roberta, Musella, Knoxville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 1.54 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 1,015.4 times the land area of nearby Knoxville CDP (0.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bibb County, Houston County, Macon County, Monroe County, Peach County, Taylor County, Upson County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

