THE BULLOCK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Bullock County has 622.8 square miles of land in Alabama. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Bullock County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Blackland Prairie, 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
Bullock County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain67.9%
- Blackland Prairie23.2%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins8.9%
Finding your parcel within Bullock County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bullock County, including Union Springs, Fitzpatrick, Midway. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bullock County by land and water
The Census records 2.33 square miles of water within Bullock County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Bullock County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bullock County has 93.9 times the land area of nearby Union Springs city (6.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barbour County, Macon County, Montgomery 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.

