Editing Fannin County, Georgia (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|392|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|387|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|5.2|sqmi}} (1.3%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The county is located in the [[Blue Ridge Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Fannin|display=Fannin. I. A N. W. county of Georgia}}</ref>

The [[Toccoa River]], which rises in adjacent [[Union County, Georgia|Union County]], flows northward across Fannin County into Tennessee, where it becomes the Ocoee River.  [[Lake Blue Ridge|Blue Ridge Lake]], created in the 1930s by the completion of [[Blue Ridge Dam]] (now operated by the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]]), spans a substantial stretch of the river in the northern part of the county.

The vast majority of Fannin County is located in the [[Ocoee River]] sub-basin of the [[Tennessee River|Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee]] basin. A very small northeastern portion of Fannin County is located in the [[Hiwassee River]] sub-basin of the same [[Tennessee River|Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee]] basin. Illustrating that watershed boundaries and county boundaries have little in common, Fannin County's southernmost corner is located in the [[Etowah River]] sub-basin in the [[ACT River Basin]] (Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin), while two slivers of the county's southwestern area are located in the [[Coosawattee River]] sub-basin of the same larger ACT River Basin. Finally, a western portion of the county is located in the [[Conasauga River]] sub-basin of the ACT River Basin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |title=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission Interactive Mapping Experience |publisher=Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission |access-date=November 19, 2015 |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003004639/http://www.gaswcc.org/maps/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Cherokee County, North Carolina|Cherokee County]], [[North Carolina]] - northeast
* [[Union County, Georgia|Union County]] - east
* [[Dawson County, Georgia|Dawson County]] - southeast
* [[Lumpkin County, Georgia|Lumpkin County]] - southeast
* [[Gilmer County, Georgia|Gilmer County]] - southwest
* [[Murray County, Georgia|Murray County]] - west
* [[Polk County, Tennessee|Polk County]], [[Tennessee]] - north

===National protected area===
* [[Chattahoochee National Forest]] (part)