THE WARE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Okefenokee Plains setting.
Ware County has 899.4 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Ware County: Okefenokee Plains, Okefenokee Swamp, Bacon Terraces.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ware County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Okefenokee Plains38.5%
- Okefenokee Swamp36.4%
- Bacon Terraces25.1%
Finding your parcel within Ware County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ware County, including Waycross, Deenwood, Waresboro. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ware County by land and water
The Census records 8.63 square miles of water within Ware County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Ware County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ware County has 1,040.9 times the land area of nearby Manor CDP (0.86 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atkinson County, Bacon County, Brantley County, Charlton County, Clinch County, Coffee County, Pierce County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

