THE PICKENS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Pickens County has 881.4 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Pickens County: Fall Line Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Pickens County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills81.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces10.8%
- Blackland Prairie4.7%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins3.1%
Finding your parcel within Pickens County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pickens County, including Reform, Pickensville, Aliceville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pickens County by land and water
The Census records 8.73 square miles of water within Pickens County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Pickens County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pickens County has 428.3 times the land area of nearby Carrollton town (2.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fayette County, Greene County, Lamar County, Sumter County, Tuscaloosa County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

