THE EFFINGHAM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sea Island Flatwoods setting.
Effingham County has 478.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Effingham County: Sea Island Flatwoods, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Effingham County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sea Island Flatwoods86.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces13.7%
Finding your parcel within Effingham County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Effingham County, including Rincon, Springfield, Guyton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Effingham County by land and water
The Census records 4.02 square miles of water within Effingham County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Effingham County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Effingham County has 119.5 times the land area of nearby Springfield city (4.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bryan County, Bulloch County, Chatham County, Screven County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

