THE WILKINSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Plain Red Uplands setting.
Wilkinson County has 449.2 square miles of land in Georgia. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Wilkinson County: Coastal Plain Red Uplands, Sand Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Wilkinson County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Plain Red Uplands54.7%
- Sand Hills31.2%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces10%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains4.1%
Finding your parcel within Wilkinson County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wilkinson County, including Gordon, McIntyre, Allentown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wilkinson County by land and water
The Census records 2.73 square miles of water within Wilkinson County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Wilkinson County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wilkinson County has 142.8 times the land area of nearby Irwinton city (3.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baldwin County, Bleckley County, Johnson County, Jones County, Laurens County, Twiggs County, Washington County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

