THE GLASCOCK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Glascock County has 143.7 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Glascock County: Sand Hills, Coastal Plain Red Uplands, Southern Outer Piedmont.
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
Glascock County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills78.1%
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands16.8%
- Southern Outer Piedmont5.2%
Piedmont in Glascock 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 Glascock County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Glascock County, including Mitchell, Gibson, Edge Hill. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Glascock County by land and water
The Census records 0.71 square miles of water within Glascock County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Glascock County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Glascock County has 140.2 times the land area of nearby Gibson city (1.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hancock County, Jefferson County, Warren County, Washington County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.