THE DADE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Table Plateaus setting.
Dade County has 174.1 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Dade County: Southern Table Plateaus, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Plateau Escarpment.
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.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Dade County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Table Plateaus35.9%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills33.6%
- Plateau Escarpment30.5%
Ridge and Valley in Dade County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Dade County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dade County, including New England, Wildwood, Trenton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dade County by land and water
The Census records 0.19 square miles of water within Dade County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Dade County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dade County has 54.1 times the land area of nearby Trenton city (3.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Walker County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

