THE MAURY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Outer Nashville Basin setting.
Maury County has 613.1 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Maury County: Outer Nashville Basin, Western Highland Rim, Inner Nashville Basin.
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
Maury County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Outer Nashville Basin71.1%
- Western Highland Rim15.9%
- Inner Nashville Basin12.9%
Finding your parcel within Maury County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Maury County, including Columbia, Spring Hill, Mount Pleasant. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Maury County by land and water
The Census records 2.45 square miles of water within Maury County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Maury County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Maury County has 16.8 times the land area of nearby Columbia city (36.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Giles County, Hickman County, Lawrence County, Lewis County, Marshall County, Williamson County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

