THE WAYNE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Wayne County has 810.7 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Wayne County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southern Pine Plains and Hills, Jackson Prairie, 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
Wayne County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain58.6%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills33.2%
- Jackson Prairie7.1%
- Buhrstone/Lime Hills1%
Finding your parcel within Wayne County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wayne County, including Waynesboro, Buckatunna, State Line. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wayne County by land and water
The Census records 2.8 square miles of water within Wayne County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Wayne County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wayne County has 63.9 times the land area of nearby Waynesboro city (12.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Greene County, Jasper County, Jones County, Perry County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

