THE MACON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Plain Red Uplands setting.
Macon County has 400.7 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Macon 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
Macon County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands47%
- Sand Hills40.7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces12.1%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains0.2%
Finding your parcel within Macon County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Macon County, including Montezuma, Marshallville, Oglethorpe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Macon County by land and water
The Census records 5.34 square miles of water within Macon County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Macon County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Macon County has 199.7 times the land area of nearby Oglethorpe city (2.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Dooly County, Houston County, Peach County, Schley County, Sumter County, Taylor County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

