THE CALHOUN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Calhoun County has 605.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Calhoun County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Sandstone Ridges, among others.
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.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Calhoun County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills60.1%
- Southern Shale Valleys20.3%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges15.5%
- Talladega Upland4.2%
Piedmont in Calhoun County
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Calhoun County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Calhoun County, including Anniston, Oxford, Southside. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Calhoun County by land and water
The Census records 6.38 square miles of water within Calhoun County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Calhoun County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Calhoun County has 175.3 times the land area of nearby Weaver city (3.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cherokee County, Cleburne County, Etowah County, St. Clair County, Talladega County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

