THE WORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tifton Upland setting.
Worth County has 570.7 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Worth County: Tifton Upland, Dougherty Plain, 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
Worth County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tifton Upland64.7%
- Dougherty Plain33.9%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces1.4%
Finding your parcel within Worth County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Worth County, including Sylvester, Sumner, Poulan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Worth County by land and water
The Census records 4.06 square miles of water within Worth County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Worth County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Worth County has 86.9 times the land area of nearby Sylvester city (6.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Colquitt County, Crisp County, Dougherty County, Lee County, Mitchell County, Tift County, Turner County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

