THE WALKER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Hills setting.
Walker County has 791.1 square miles of land in Alabama. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Walker County: Shale Hills, Dissected Plateau.
Open low mountains and plateau edges form a landscape of wooded uplands and deeper ravines. Escarpments mark the transition toward both the Ridge and Valley and the Interior Plateau.
Regional context: Southwestern Appalachians ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Walker County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Shale Hills91.7%
- Dissected Plateau8.3%
Finding your parcel within Walker County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Walker County, including Jasper, Dora, Cordova. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Walker County by land and water
The Census records 14.1 square miles of water within Walker County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Walker County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Walker County has 378 times the land area of nearby Parrish town (2.09 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blount County, Cullman County, Fayette County, Jefferson County, Marion County, Tuscaloosa County, Winston County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

