THE CLEBURNE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Talladega Upland setting.
Cleburne County has 560.1 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Cleburne County: Talladega Upland, Southern Inner Piedmont, Southern Sandstone Ridges, among others.
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.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cleburne County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Talladega Upland62.1%
- Southern Inner Piedmont30.6%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges5.7%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills1.7%
Ridge and Valley in Cleburne 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 Cleburne County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cleburne County, including Edwardsville, Heflin, Hollis Crossroads. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cleburne County by land and water
The Census records 0.89 square miles of water within Cleburne County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Cleburne County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cleburne County has 34.7 times the land area of nearby Heflin city (16.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Cherokee County, Clay County, Randolph County, Talladega County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

