THE CHOCTAW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Buhrstone/Lime Hills setting.
Choctaw County has 913.5 square miles of land in Alabama. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Choctaw County: Buhrstone/Lime Hills, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Choctaw County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Buhrstone/Lime Hills51%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain37.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces9.3%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills1.6%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins0.9%
Finding your parcel within Choctaw County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Choctaw County, including Gilbertown, Butler, Cullomburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Choctaw County by land and water
The Census records 7.38 square miles of water within Choctaw County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Choctaw County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Choctaw County has 1,597 times the land area of nearby Needham town (0.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Marengo County, Sumter County, Washington County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

