THE TIFT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tifton Upland setting.
Tift County has 260.9 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Tift County: Tifton Upland, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains.
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
Tift County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tifton Upland82.8%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains17.2%
Finding your parcel within Tift County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tift County, including Tifton, Omega, Ty Ty. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tift County by land and water
The Census records 7.9 square miles of water within Tift County, or 2.9% of its total area. That share is close to Tift County’s 2.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tift County has 20.1 times the land area of nearby Tifton city (13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Berrien County, Colquitt County, Cook County, Irwin County, Turner County, Worth County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

