THE FAYETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Fayette County has 627.7 square miles of land in Alabama. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Fayette County: Fall Line Hills, Shale 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
Fayette County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills69.6%
- Shale Hills30.4%
Southwestern Appalachians in Fayette County
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Fayette County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fayette County, including Winfield, Berry, Fayette. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fayette County by land and water
The Census records 1.67 square miles of water within Fayette County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Fayette County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fayette County has 73.4 times the land area of nearby Fayette city (8.55 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lamar County, Marion County, Pickens County, Tuscaloosa County, Walker County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

