THE NAUVOO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Hills setting.
Nauvoo town has 0.99 square miles of land in Walker County, Winston 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
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Nauvoo intersects 2 county geographies: Walker County, Winston County. A Nauvoo mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Nauvoo by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Nauvoo, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 3.2 percentage points lower than the 3.4% recorded for Alabama. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nauvoo town has 9.3% of the land area of nearby Lynn town (10.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

