THE TAYLOR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Hills setting.
Taylor County has 376.7 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Taylor County: Sand Hills, Southern Outer Piedmont, 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
Taylor County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sand Hills86.3%
- Southern Outer Piedmont10.2%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces3.5%
Piedmont in Taylor County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Taylor County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Taylor County, including Butler, Howard, Reynolds. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Taylor County by land and water
The Census records 3.01 square miles of water within Taylor County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Taylor County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Taylor County has 116 times the land area of nearby Butler city (3.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Macon County, Marion County, Peach County, Schley County, Talbot County, Upson County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

