THE BLOUNT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Table Plateaus setting.
Blount County has 644.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Blount County: Southern Table Plateaus, Sequatchie Valley, Dissected Plateau, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Blount County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Table Plateaus58%
- Sequatchie Valley15.4%
- Dissected Plateau11.6%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills11%
- Shale Hills3%
Ridge and Valley in Blount County
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Blount County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Blount County, including Remlap, Oneonta, Cleveland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Blount County by land and water
The Census records 5.72 square miles of water within Blount County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Blount County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Blount County has 82.2 times the land area of nearby Cleveland town (7.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cullman County, Etowah County, Jefferson County, Marshall County, St. Clair County, Walker County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

