THE COALING LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Hills setting.
Coaling city has 5.01 square miles of land in Tuscaloosa County. Its Census reference point is in Shale Hills, within Southwestern Appalachians.
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Coaling and Tuscaloosa County
Coaling is associated with Tuscaloosa County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Coaling by land and water
The Census records 0.07 square miles of water within Coaling, or 1.4% of its total area. It is 0.9 percentage points lower than the 2.2% recorded for Tuscaloosa County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coaling city has 59.9% of the land area of nearby Brookwood city (8.37 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

