THE GORDON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Shale Valleys setting.
Gordon County has 356.5 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Gordon County: Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Metasedimentary Mountains, among others.
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
Gordon County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Shale Valleys70.4%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills17.8%
- Southern Metasedimentary Mountains7.4%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges4.4%
Blue Ridge in Gordon County
Forested ridges, plateaus and high mountains extend through the Blue Ridge. Elevation, rainfall and sheltered coves create marked differences in forest communities across short distances.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Gordon County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gordon County, including Calhoun, Resaca, Fairmount. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gordon County by land and water
The Census records 2.21 square miles of water within Gordon County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Gordon County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gordon County has 20.6 times the land area of nearby Calhoun city (17.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bartow County, Cherokee County, Floyd County, Gilmer County, Murray County, Pickens County, Walker County, Whitfield County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

