List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia
There are ten National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Ownership | Description | |
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1 | 1976 | Tattnall | state (Dept. of Natural Resources) | Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest. | |||
2 | 1974 | Emanuel | private | One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain | |||
3 | 1972 | Harris | private | An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | |||
4 | 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 / 33.541611°N 82.253639°W | Columbia | county, private (The Nature Conservancy) | The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops. | |
6 | 31°24′N 81°30′W / 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°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°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°37′00″N 82°19′00″W / 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°38′07″N 84°10′13″W / 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 | 1967 | 31°54′01″N 80°58′56″W / 31.9003°N 80.9822°W | Chatham | federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge) | Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover. | |
11 | 2014 | 30°45′N 84°00′W / 30.75°N 84°W | Thomas | private | Old growth longleaf pine savanna. |
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