THE BUTLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Butler County has 776.8 square miles of land in Alabama. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Butler County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Buhrstone/Lime Hills, Southern Pine Plains and Hills.
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
Butler County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain96.2%
- Buhrstone/Lime Hills2.2%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills1.6%
Finding your parcel within Butler County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Butler County, including Greenville, Georgiana, McKenzie. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Butler County by land and water
The Census records 1.04 square miles of water within Butler County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Butler County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Butler County has 36.4 times the land area of nearby Greenville city (21.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Conecuh County, Covington County, Crenshaw County, Lowndes County, Monroe County, Wilcox County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

