THE TALLAPOOSA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Inner Piedmont setting.
Tallapoosa County has 716.5 square miles of land in Alabama. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Tallapoosa County: Southern Inner Piedmont, Southern Outer Piedmont, Fall Line Hills, among others.
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.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Tallapoosa County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Inner Piedmont55.5%
- Southern Outer Piedmont40.2%
- Fall Line Hills4.1%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces0.2%
Southeastern Plains in Tallapoosa County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Tallapoosa County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tallapoosa County, including Alexander City, Dadeville, Our Town. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tallapoosa County by land and water
The Census records 49.7 square miles of water within Tallapoosa County, or 6.5% of its total area. That share is close to Tallapoosa County’s 6.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tallapoosa County has 71 times the land area of nearby Jacksons' Gap town (10.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chambers County, Clay County, Coosa County, Elmore County, Lee County, Macon County, Randolph County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

