THE FULTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Fulton County has 526.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Fulton County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Southern Inner Piedmont.
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.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Fulton County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont61.1%
- Southern Inner Piedmont38.9%
Finding your parcel within Fulton County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fulton County, including Atlanta, South Fulton, Chattahoochee Hills. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fulton County by land and water
The Census records 7.94 square miles of water within Fulton County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Fulton County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fulton County has 3.9 times the land area of nearby Atlanta city (135.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Cherokee County, Clayton County, Cobb County, Coweta County, DeKalb County, Douglas County, Fayette County and other counties within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.