THE TALLADEGA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills setting.
Talladega County has 736.8 square miles of land in Alabama. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Talladega County: Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Talladega Upland, Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs, among others.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Talladega County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills68%
- Talladega Upland18.8%
- Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs4.4%
- Southern Inner Piedmont3.6%
- Southern Shale Valleys2.5%
Piedmont in Talladega 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 Talladega County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Talladega County, including Oxford, Talladega, Lincoln. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Talladega County by land and water
The Census records 23.5 square miles of water within Talladega County, or 3.1% of its total area. That share is close to Talladega County’s 3.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Talladega County has 28.3 times the land area of nearby Talladega city (26.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Clay County, Cleburne County, Coosa County, Shelby County, St. Clair County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

