THE ELMORE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Elmore County has 618.5 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Elmore County: Fall Line Hills, Southern Inner Piedmont, 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
Elmore County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills48.8%
- Southern Inner Piedmont33.7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces16.4%
- Southern Outer Piedmont1.2%
Piedmont in Elmore 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 Elmore County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Elmore County, including Prattville, Redland, Holtville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Elmore County by land and water
The Census records 38.5 square miles of water within Elmore County, or 5.9% of its total area. That share is close to Elmore County’s 5.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Elmore County has 53.8 times the land area of nearby Wetumpka city (11.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Autauga County, Chilton County, Coosa County, Macon County, Montgomery County, Tallapoosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

![This is a photograph of the county courthouse of Elmore County, Alabama. The building is located in [{Wetumpka]](/location-photos/alabama/01051/sell-my-land-elmore-county-al-v2-1920.jpg)