THE STEWART COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Stewart County has 458.8 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Stewart County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Coastal Plain Red Uplands, 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
Stewart County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain87.2%
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands6%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces5.4%
- Sand Hills1.4%
Finding your parcel within Stewart County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stewart County, including Richland, Lumpkin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stewart County by land and water
The Census records 4.85 square miles of water within Stewart County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Stewart County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stewart County has 290.4 times the land area of nearby Lumpkin city (1.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Webster County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

