List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia
There are ten National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Georgia National Natural Landmarks (clickable map)
| Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Ownership | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Hammock Natural Area | 1976 | Tattnall | state (Dept. of Natural Resources) | Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. | ||
| 2 | Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area | 1974 | Emanuel | private | One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain | ||
| 3 | Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest | 1972 | Harris | private | An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | ||
| 4 | Ebenezer Creek Swamp | 1976 | Effingham | private | The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. | ||
| 5 | Heggie's Rock |  |
1980 | 33°32′29.8″N 82°15′13.1″W | Columbia | county, private (The Nature Conservancy) | The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. |
| 6 | Lewis Island Tract | 31.4°N 81.5°W | 1974 | McIntosh | state (Department of Natural Resources) | One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website | |
| 7 | Marshall Forest |  |
1966 | Rome34.250898°N 85.195375°W | Floyd | private | A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma. |
| 8 | Okefenokee Swamp |  |
1974 | 30.616667°N 82.316667°W | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | federal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge) | One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country. |
| 9 | Panola Mountain |  |
1980 | 33.635278°N 84.170278°W | Rockdale | state (Department of Natural Resources) | The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiographic province. |
| 10 | Wassaw Island | .jpg.webp) |
1967 | 31.9003°N 80.9822°W | Chatham | federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge) | Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover. |
| 11 | Wade Tract Preserve | 2014 | 30.75°N 84°W | Thomas | private | Old growth longleaf pine savanna. | |
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