THE PAULDING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Inner Piedmont setting.
Paulding County has 312.4 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Paulding County: Southern Inner Piedmont, Talladega Upland, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills.
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
Where the landscape changes
Paulding County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Inner Piedmont70.7%
- Talladega Upland29%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills0.3%
Ridge and Valley in Paulding County
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Paulding County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Paulding County, including Dallas, Hiram, Braswell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Paulding County by land and water
The Census records 2.01 square miles of water within Paulding County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Paulding County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Paulding County has 37.9 times the land area of nearby Dallas city (8.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bartow County, Carroll County, Cobb County, Douglas County, Haralson County, Polk County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

