THE CRENSHAW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Crenshaw County has 608.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Crenshaw County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, 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
Crenshaw County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain96.1%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills3.9%
Finding your parcel within Crenshaw County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crenshaw County, including Luverne, Rutledge, Brantley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crenshaw County by land and water
The Census records 2.08 square miles of water within Crenshaw County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Crenshaw County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crenshaw County has 103.9 times the land area of nearby Rutledge town (5.86 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Coffee County, Covington County, Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Pike County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

