THE MACON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins setting.
Macon County has 608.7 square miles of land in Alabama. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Macon County: Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, Fall Line Hills, 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
Macon County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins40.5%
- Fall Line Hills38.7%
- Blackland Prairie9.1%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain7.9%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces3.3%
Piedmont in Macon 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 Macon County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Macon County, including Tuskegee, Franklin, Notasulga. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Macon County by land and water
The Census records 4.54 square miles of water within Macon County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Macon County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Macon County has 35.7 times the land area of nearby Tuskegee city (17.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bullock County, Elmore County, Lee County, Montgomery County, Russell County, Tallapoosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

