THE HOUSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Plain Red Uplands setting.
Houston County has 376.2 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Houston County: Coastal Plain Red Uplands, Sand Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Houston County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands85.2%
- Sand Hills7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces6.1%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains1.8%
Finding your parcel within Houston County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Houston County, including Warner Robins, Perry, Centerville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Houston County by land and water
The Census records 3.75 square miles of water within Houston County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Houston County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Houston County has 13.1 times the land area of nearby Perry city (28.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bibb County, Bleckley County, Crawford County, Dooly County, Macon County, Peach County, Pulaski County, Twiggs County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

