THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Greene County has 647 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Fall Line Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Blackland Prairie, 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
Greene County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills31.5%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces28.7%
- Blackland Prairie20.2%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins19.7%
Finding your parcel within Greene County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Eutaw, Boligee, Forkland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 12.9 square miles of water within Greene County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 54.2 times the land area of nearby Eutaw city (11.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hale County, Marengo County, Pickens County, Sumter County, Tuscaloosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

