THE MARENGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Marengo County has 976.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Marengo County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, 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
Marengo County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain39.7%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins32.6%
- Blackland Prairie13.9%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces13.8%
Finding your parcel within Marengo County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marengo County, including Demopolis, Putnam, Linden. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marengo County by land and water
The Census records 5.77 square miles of water within Marengo County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Marengo County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marengo County has 273 times the land area of nearby Linden town (3.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Choctaw County, Clarke County, Dallas County, Greene County, Hale County, Perry County, Sumter County, Wilcox County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

