THE BARBOUR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Barbour County has 885 square miles of land in Alabama. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Barbour County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins.
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Barbour County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain96.2%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces2%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins1.8%
Finding your parcel within Barbour County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Barbour County, including Eufaula, Clio, Clayton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Barbour County by land and water
The Census records 19.5 square miles of water within Barbour County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Barbour County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Barbour County has 130.6 times the land area of nearby Clayton city (6.78 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bullock County, Dale County, Henry County, Pike County, Russell County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

