THE WILCOX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Wilcox County has 887.9 square miles of land in Alabama. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Wilcox County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins.
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
Wilcox County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain68%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces18.6%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins13.4%
Finding your parcel within Wilcox County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wilcox County, including Camden, Pine Hill, Pine Apple. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wilcox County by land and water
The Census records 19.5 square miles of water within Wilcox County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Wilcox County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wilcox County has 212.2 times the land area of nearby Camden city (4.18 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Butler County, Clarke County, Dallas County, Lowndes County, Marengo County, Monroe County within Alabama. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

