List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia
This is a list of the National Natural Landmarks in Georgia . In Georgia , there are eleven as a National Natural Landmark designated objects (as of 2020). They were established between 1966 and 2013 and cover areas between about 125 hectares and 1497 square kilometers .
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Surname | image | registration | place | county | Landowner | description | |
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1 | Big Hammock Natural Area | 1976 | 31 ° 51 ′ 45 " N , 82 ° 3 ′ 28.5" W. | Tattnall | State ( Department of Natural Resources ) | Relatively undisturbed evergreen deciduous forest. | |
2 | Camp EF Boyd Natural Area | 1974 | Emanuel | Private | One of the best representatives of the coastal plain sand hill ecosystem. | ||
3 | Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest | 1972 | 32 ° 45 '18 " N , 84 ° 53' 34.7" W. | Harris | Private | A very good example of the transition between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types. | |
4th | Ebenezer Creek Swamp | 1976 | 32 ° 22 '29.4 " N , 81 ° 13' 53.6" W. | Effingham | Private | The best remaining 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 endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops . | |
6th | Lewis Island Tract | 1974 | 31 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ N , 81 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W. | McIntosh | State (Department of Natural Resources) | One of the largest hardwood swamps in Georgia. | |
7th | Marshall Forest | 1966 |
Rome 34 ° 15 ′ 3.2 " N , 85 ° 11 ′ 43.4" W. |
Floyd | Private | A frankincense pine - spruce pine forest believed to have been formed after a fire that occurred around the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly dragged to Oklahoma . | |
8th | Okefenokee Swamp | 1974 | 30 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 82 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W. | Charlton , clinch , ware | Bund ( Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge ) | One of the largest and most pristine wetlands in the country. | |
9 | Panola Mountain | 1980 | 33 ° 38 ′ 7 " N , 84 ° 10 ′ 13" W. | Rockdale | State (Department of Natural Resources) | The most natural and undisturbed island mountain made of exposed granite rock in the biophysiographic region of Piedmont . | |
10 | Wassaw Island | 1967 | 31 ° 54 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 80 ° 58 ′ 55.9 ″ W. | Chatham | Bund ( Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge ) | The only barrier island in Georgia with an intact forest. | |
11 | Wade Tract Preserve | 2013 | 30 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 84 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W. | Thomas | Private | Old ingrown marsh pines savannah. |
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- ↑ a b National Park Service: National Natural Landmarks by state , accessed on May 7, 2020 (English)