THE TELFAIR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains setting.
Telfair County has 437.3 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Telfair County: Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, 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
Telfair County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains88.1%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces11.9%
Finding your parcel within Telfair County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Telfair County, including McRae-Helena, Milan, Lumber City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Telfair County by land and water
The Census records 6.7 square miles of water within Telfair County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Telfair County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Telfair County has 402.3 times the land area of nearby Jacksonville city (1.09 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ben Hill County, Coffee County, Dodge County, Jeff Davis County, Wheeler County, Wilcox County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

