THE HALE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Hale County has 644 square miles of land in Alabama. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hale County: Fall Line Hills, Blackland Prairie, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Hale County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills54.1%
- Blackland Prairie28.9%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces17%
Finding your parcel within Hale County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hale County, including Moundville, Greensboro, Newbern. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hale County by land and water
The Census records 12.5 square miles of water within Hale County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Hale County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hale County has 270.9 times the land area of nearby Greensboro city (2.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bibb County, Greene County, Marengo County, Perry County, Tuscaloosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

