THE UNION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains setting.
Union County has 323.6 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Union County: Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains, Broad Basins, Southern Metasedimentary Mountains.
Forested ridges, plateaus and high mountains extend through the Blue Ridge. Elevation, rainfall and sheltered coves create marked differences in forest communities across short distances.
Regional context: Blue Ridge ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Union County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Crystalline Ridges and Mountains47.1%
- Broad Basins43.5%
- Southern Metasedimentary Mountains9.4%
Finding your parcel within Union County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Union County, including Blairsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Union County by land and water
The Census records 6.98 square miles of water within Union County, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Union County’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Union County has 260.1 times the land area of nearby Blairsville city (1.24 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fannin County, Lumpkin County, Towns County, White County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

