THE ALAMO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie setting.
Alamo city has 0.55 square miles of land in Williams County. Its Census reference point is in Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Alamo and Williams County
Alamo is associated with Williams County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Alamo by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Alamo, or 4.2% of its total area. It is 0.9 percentage points higher than the 3.3% recorded for Williams County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Alamo city has 1.6% of the land area of nearby Rock Island township (34.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

