THE GENEVA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dougherty Plain setting.
Geneva County has 574.5 square miles of land in Alabama. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Geneva County: Dougherty Plain, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain.
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
Geneva County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Dougherty Plain99.4%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain0.6%
Finding your parcel within Geneva County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Geneva County, including Geneva, Malvern, Slocomb. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Geneva County by land and water
The Census records 4.47 square miles of water within Geneva County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Geneva County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Geneva County has 314.6 times the land area of nearby Eunola CDP (1.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffee County, Covington County, Dale County, Houston County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

