List of National Natural Landmarks in Georgia

There are ten National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.

	Name	Date	Location	County	Ownership	Description
1	Big Hammock Natural Area	000000001976-01-01-00001976		Tattnall	state (Dept. of Natural Resources)	Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest.
2	Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area	000000001974-01-01-00001974		Emanuel	private	One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain
3	Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest	000000001972-01-01-00001972		Harris	private	An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types.
4	Ebenezer Creek Swamp	000000001976-01-01-00001976		Effingham	private	The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin.
5	Heggie's Rock	000000001980-01-01-00001980		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	000000001974-01-01-00001974		McIntosh	state (Department of Natural Resources)	One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website
7	Marshall Forest	000000001966-01-01-00001966	Rome34°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°N 85.195375°W / 34.250898; -85.195375 (Marshall Forest)	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	000000001974-01-01-00001974		Charlton, Clinch, Ware	federal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge)	One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country.
9	Panola Mountain	000000001980-01-01-00001980		Rockdale	state (Department of Natural Resources)	The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiograpic province.
10	Wassaw Island	000000001967-01-01-00001967		Chatham	federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge)	Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover.
11	Wade Tract Preserve	000000002014-01-01-00002014		Thomas	private	Old growth longleaf pine savanna.

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