THE TOOMBS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Atlantic Southern Loam Plains setting.
Toombs County has 364 square miles of land in Georgia. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Toombs 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
Toombs County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains96.1%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces3.9%
Finding your parcel within Toombs County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Toombs County, including Vidalia, Lyons, Santa Claus. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Toombs County by land and water
The Census records 6.98 square miles of water within Toombs County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Toombs County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Toombs County has 1,978.3 times the land area of nearby Santa Claus city (0.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Appling County, Candler County, Emanuel County, Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Tattnall County, Treutlen County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

![Toombs County Courthouse, Lyons, Tombs County, Georgia. The courthouse was built in 1964, and is the third courthouse for Toombs County.[1]](/location-photos/georgia/13279/sell-my-land-toombs-county-ga-v2-1920.jpg)