THE MEIGS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Meigs County has 195.1 square miles of land in Tennessee. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Meigs County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, Southern Shale Valleys.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Meigs County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills82%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs11.3%
- Southern Shale Valleys6.7%
Finding your parcel within Meigs County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Meigs County, including Decatur. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Meigs County by land and water
The Census records 21.5 square miles of water within Meigs County, or 9.9% of its total area. That share is close to Meigs County’s 9.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Meigs County has 51.4 times the land area of nearby Decatur town (3.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bradley County, Hamilton County, McMinn County, Rhea County, Roane County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

