THE JEFF DAVIS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bacon Terraces setting.
Jeff Davis County has 330.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Jeff Davis County: Bacon Terraces, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Jeff Davis County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bacon Terraces56.3%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains37.6%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces6%
Southeastern Plains in Jeff Davis County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Jeff Davis County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jeff Davis County, including Hazlehurst, Satilla, Denton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jeff Davis County by land and water
The Census records 4.48 square miles of water within Jeff Davis County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Jeff Davis County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jeff Davis County has 69.9 times the land area of nearby Hazlehurst city (4.73 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Appling County, Bacon County, Coffee County, Montgomery County, Telfair County, Toombs County, Wheeler County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

