THE LEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dougherty Plain setting.
Lee County has 355.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Lee County: Dougherty Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Lee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Dougherty Plain96%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces4%
Finding your parcel within Lee County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lee County, including Leesburg, Smithville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lee County by land and water
The Census records 5.88 square miles of water within Lee County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Lee County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lee County has 72.5 times the land area of nearby Leesburg city (4.91 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crisp County, Dougherty County, Sumter County, Terrell County, Worth County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

