THE COOSA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Inner Piedmont setting.
Coosa County has 650.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Coosa County: Southern Inner Piedmont, Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, 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
Coosa County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Inner Piedmont97.3%
- Southern Shale Valleys1.3%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills1%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs0.4%
Ridge and Valley in Coosa 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 Coosa County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coosa County, including Stewartville, Hissop, Ray. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coosa County by land and water
The Census records 15.4 square miles of water within Coosa County, or 2.3% of its total area. That share is close to Coosa County’s 2.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coosa County has 196.8 times the land area of nearby Rockford town (3.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chilton County, Clay County, Elmore County, Shelby County, Talladega County, Tallapoosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

