THE FLOYD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Shale Valleys setting.
Floyd County has 509.8 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Floyd County: Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges.
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
Floyd County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Shale Valleys56%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills32.5%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges11.5%
Finding your parcel within Floyd County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Floyd County, including Rome, Lindale, Shannon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Floyd County by land and water
The Census records 8.63 square miles of water within Floyd County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Floyd County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Floyd County has 16 times the land area of nearby Rome city (31.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bartow County, Chattooga County, Gordon County, Polk County, Walker County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

