THE PERRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Perry County has 719.7 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Perry County: Fall Line Hills, Blackland Prairie, 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
Perry County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills58.9%
- Blackland Prairie31.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces9.3%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins0.5%
Finding your parcel within Perry County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Perry County, including Uniontown, Marion. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Perry County by land and water
The Census records 4.21 square miles of water within Perry County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Perry County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Perry County has 68.1 times the land area of nearby Marion city (10.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bibb County, Chilton County, Dallas County, Hale County, Marengo County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

