THE GILES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Nashville Basin setting.
Giles County has 610.9 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Giles County: Outer Nashville Basin, Western Highland Rim, Eastern Highland Rim.
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Regional context: Interior Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Giles County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Nashville Basin75.6%
- Western Highland Rim23.8%
- Eastern Highland Rim0.6%
Finding your parcel within Giles County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Giles County, including Pulaski, Ardmore, Elkton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Giles County by land and water
The Census records 0.25 square miles of water within Giles County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Giles County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Giles County has 78 times the land area of nearby Pulaski city (7.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Marshall County, Maury County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

