THE HENRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Henry County has 318.7 square miles of land in Georgia. The mapped landscape region in Henry County is Southern Outer 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
Finding your parcel within Henry County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Henry County, including Stockbridge, Locust Grove, McDonough. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Henry County by land and water
The Census records 7.81 square miles of water within Henry County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Henry County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Henry County has 23.8 times the land area of nearby McDonough city (13.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butts County, Clayton County, DeKalb County, Newton County, Rockdale County, Spalding County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

