THE PIERCE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bacon Terraces setting.
Pierce County has 340.5 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pierce County: Bacon Terraces, Sea Island Flatwoods.
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
Pierce County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bacon Terraces80.1%
- Sea Island Flatwoods19.9%
Finding your parcel within Pierce County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pierce County, including Waycross, Blackshear, Offerman. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pierce County by land and water
The Census records 2.77 square miles of water within Pierce County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Pierce County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pierce County has 129 times the land area of nearby Patterson city (2.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Appling County, Bacon County, Brantley County, Ware County, Wayne County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

