THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blackland Prairie setting.
Montgomery County has 785.4 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Blackland Prairie, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Montgomery County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blackland Prairie50.4%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain27.4%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces12.4%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins9.8%
Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Montgomery, Pike Road. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 14.6 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 23.1 times the land area of nearby Pike Road city (34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Autauga County, Bullock County, Crenshaw County, Elmore County, Lowndes County, Macon County, Pike County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

