151 base towns · five WFF districts
Alabama Hunting Towns
151 Alabama towns used as starting points for public-land hunting: 69 county seats, the cities of 50,000 or more, and base towns for big WMAs, Special Opportunity Areas, Forever Wild tracts, the Bankhead, Talladega, Conecuh and Tuskegee national forests, the refuges, Corps and TVA land and Little River Canyon. Each page ranks the land in reach by miles and adds the deer, turkey and dove zones of every county that land sits in, draw hunts, seasons and services.
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Alabama hunting towns by WFF district
Towns are grouped by the ADCNR Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries district of their county: WFF District I (30 towns) across the Tennessee Valley, the Bankhead National Forest and the northwest Alabama hills; WFF District II (36 towns) across the northeast ridges, Lake Guntersville, the Talladega National Forest and the Coosa valley; WFF District III (30 towns) across the Black Warrior and Cahaba river country, Birmingham and the western Black Belt; WFF District IV (25 towns) across the Montgomery area, the east Alabama Piedmont edge, the Chattahoochee valley and the Wiregrass; WFF District V (30 towns) across the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, the Gulf Coast and the lower Alabama and Tombigbee river pine woods.
Alabama town pages from the Tennessee Valley to the Gulf
WFF District I, 30 towns
- Addison Winston Co., 60,134 public acres in 10 mi
- Arley Winston Co., 28,725 public acres in 10 mi
- Athens Limestone Co., 8,698 public acres in 10 mi
- Bear Creek Marion Co., 3,373 public acres in 10 mi
- Belgreen Franklin Co., 6,311 public acres in 10 mi
- Cherokee Colbert Co., 46,960 public acres in 10 mi
- Cullman Cullman Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Decatur Morgan Co., 17,933 public acres in 10 mi
- Double Springs Winston Co., 55,360 public acres in 10 mi
- Fayette Fayette Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Florence Lauderdale Co., 10,339 public acres in 10 mi
- Guin Marion Co., 15,875 public acres in 10 mi
- Gurley Madison Co., 1,287 public acres in 10 mi
- Haleyville Winston Co., 14,576 public acres in 10 mi
- Hamilton Marion Co., 10,983 public acres in 10 mi
- Hillsboro Lawrence Co., 10,334 public acres in 10 mi
- Hodges Franklin Co., 3,542 public acres in 10 mi
- Huntsville Madison Co., 6,077 public acres in 10 mi
- Jasper Walker Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Lynn Winston Co., 3,036 public acres in 10 mi
- Madison Madison Co., 4,800 public acres in 10 mi
- Moulton Lawrence Co., 23,677 public acres in 10 mi
- Oakman Walker Co., 2,520 public acres in 10 mi
- Oneonta Blount Co., 104 public acres in 10 mi
- Priceville Morgan Co., 10,704 public acres in 10 mi
- Russellville Franklin Co., 976 public acres in 10 mi
- Sheffield Colbert Co., 12,310 public acres in 10 mi
- Triana Madison Co., 10,866 public acres in 10 mi
- Tuscumbia Colbert Co., 12,227 public acres in 10 mi
- Vernon Lamar Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
WFF District II, 36 towns
- Anniston Calhoun Co., 32,777 public acres in 10 mi
- Ashland Clay Co., 11,678 public acres in 10 mi
- Ashville St. Clair Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Centre Cherokee Co., 329 public acres in 10 mi
- Choccolocco Calhoun Co., 58,399 public acres in 10 mi
- Dadeville Tallapoosa Co., 548 public acres in 10 mi
- Delta Clay Co., 35,612 public acres in 10 mi
- Fort Payne DeKalb Co., 14,526 public acres in 10 mi
- Gadsden Etowah Co., 81 public acres in 10 mi
- Guntersville Marshall Co., 11,419 public acres in 10 mi
- Heflin Cleburne Co., 49,144 public acres in 10 mi
- Hollins Clay Co., 30,952 public acres in 10 mi
- Hollis Crossroads Cleburne Co., 39,469 public acres in 10 mi
- Hollywood Jackson Co., 28,090 public acres in 10 mi
- Hytop Jackson Co., 58,269 public acres in 10 mi
- Jacksonville Calhoun Co., 37,198 public acres in 10 mi
- La Fayette Chambers Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Langston Jackson Co., 14,647 public acres in 10 mi
- Mignon Talladega Co., 22,034 public acres in 10 mi
- Munford Talladega Co., 49,530 public acres in 10 mi
- Nances Creek Calhoun Co., 62,189 public acres in 10 mi
- Pell City St. Clair Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Pisgah Jackson Co., 23,722 public acres in 10 mi
- Pleasant Groves Jackson Co., 18,686 public acres in 10 mi
- Reeltown Tallapoosa Co., 9,741 public acres in 10 mi
- Rockford Coosa Co., 5,207 public acres in 10 mi
- Scottsboro Jackson Co., 14,112 public acres in 10 mi
- Stevenson Jackson Co., 34,088 public acres in 10 mi
- Talladega Talladega Co., 30,203 public acres in 10 mi
- Valley Head DeKalb Co., 8,564 public acres in 10 mi
- Waldo Talladega Co., 52,341 public acres in 10 mi
- Weaver Calhoun Co., 17,111 public acres in 10 mi
- Wedowee Randolph Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Weogufka Coosa Co., 2,792 public acres in 10 mi
- White Plains Calhoun Co., 76,908 public acres in 10 mi
- Woodville Jackson Co., 4,263 public acres in 10 mi
WFF District III, 30 towns
- Autaugaville Autauga Co., 15,217 public acres in 10 mi
- Birmingham Jefferson Co., 228 public acres in 10 mi
- Brantleyville Shelby Co., 20,301 public acres in 10 mi
- Brent Bibb Co., 35,811 public acres in 10 mi
- Carrollton Pickens Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Centreville Bibb Co., 25,868 public acres in 10 mi
- Clanton Chilton Co., 1,900 public acres in 10 mi
- Coker Tuscaloosa Co., 6,559 public acres in 10 mi
- Columbiana Shelby Co., 1,203 public acres in 10 mi
- Eutaw Greene Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Fort Deposit Lowndes Co., 4,534 public acres in 10 mi
- Gordo Pickens Co., 5,390 public acres in 10 mi
- Greensboro Hale Co., 3,345 public acres in 10 mi
- Hayneville Lowndes Co., 2,292 public acres in 10 mi
- Hoover Jefferson Co., 4,483 public acres in 10 mi
- Indian Springs Village Shelby Co., 3,891 public acres in 10 mi
- Livingston Sumter Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Maplesville Chilton Co., 28,714 public acres in 10 mi
- Marion Perry Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Moundville Hale Co., 13,966 public acres in 10 mi
- Pea Ridge Shelby Co., 33,346 public acres in 10 mi
- Pine Level Autauga Co., 7,925 public acres in 10 mi
- Prattville Autauga Co., 54 public acres in 10 mi
- Selma Dallas Co., 5,840 public acres in 10 mi
- Selmont-West Selmont Dallas Co., 7,068 public acres in 10 mi
- Shelby Shelby Co., 1,203 public acres in 10 mi
- Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Co., 70 public acres in 10 mi
- Valley Grande Dallas Co., 1,732 public acres in 10 mi
- West Blocton Bibb Co., 22,256 public acres in 10 mi
- White Hall Lowndes Co., 16,396 public acres in 10 mi
WFF District IV, 25 towns
- Abbeville Henry Co., 48 public acres in 10 mi
- Andalusia Covington Co., 595 public acres in 10 mi
- Auburn Lee Co., 3,145 public acres in 10 mi
- Carolina Covington Co., 25,166 public acres in 10 mi
- Clayton Barbour Co., 28,747 public acres in 10 mi
- Dothan Houston Co., 387 public acres in 10 mi
- Elba Coffee Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Enterprise Coffee Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Eufaula Barbour Co., 16,081 public acres in 10 mi
- Geneva Geneva Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Kinston Coffee Co., 15,861 public acres in 10 mi
- Ladonia Russell Co., 63 public acres in 10 mi
- Lockhart Covington Co., 6,918 public acres in 10 mi
- Luverne Crenshaw Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Midway Bullock Co., 20,345 public acres in 10 mi
- Montgomery Montgomery Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Notasulga Macon Co., 11,267 public acres in 10 mi
- Opelika Lee Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Ozark Dale Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Phenix City Russell Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Tallassee Elmore Co., 9,741 public acres in 10 mi
- Troy Pike Co., 328 public acres in 10 mi
- Tuskegee Macon Co., 11,267 public acres in 10 mi
- Union Springs Bullock Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Wetumpka Elmore Co., 255 public acres in 10 mi
WFF District V, 30 towns
- Bay Minette Baldwin Co., 26,301 public acres in 10 mi
- Bayou La Batre Mobile Co., 17,316 public acres in 10 mi
- Boykin Wilcox Co., 21,061 public acres in 10 mi
- Brewton Escambia Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Bucks Mobile Co., 38,976 public acres in 10 mi
- Butler Choctaw Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Camden Wilcox Co., 11,609 public acres in 10 mi
- Carlton Clarke Co., 5,950 public acres in 10 mi
- Chatom Washington Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Chickasaw Mobile Co., 38,935 public acres in 10 mi
- Creola Mobile Co., 63,553 public acres in 10 mi
- Dauphin Island Mobile Co., 7,075 public acres in 10 mi
- Demopolis Marengo Co., 7,896 public acres in 10 mi
- Evergreen Conecuh Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Gilbertown Choctaw Co., 3,721 public acres in 10 mi
- Grand Bay Mobile Co., 11,200 public acres in 10 mi
- Greenville Butler Co., 4,548 public acres in 10 mi
- Grove Hill Clarke Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Gulf Shores Baldwin Co., 4,712 public acres in 10 mi
- Leroy Washington Co., 4,645 public acres in 10 mi
- Lillian Baldwin Co., 5,709 public acres in 10 mi
- Linden Marengo Co., 0 public acres in 10 mi
- Mobile Mobile Co., 9,533 public acres in 10 mi
- Monroeville Monroe Co., 3,499 public acres in 10 mi
- Peterman Monroe Co., 5,423 public acres in 10 mi
- Pine Hill Wilcox Co., 1,289 public acres in 10 mi
- Rockville Clarke Co., 5,977 public acres in 10 mi
- Spanish Fort Baldwin Co., 27,227 public acres in 10 mi
- Stockton Baldwin Co., 51,724 public acres in 10 mi
- Uriah Monroe Co., 3,066 public acres in 10 mi
Towns, points and populations from the Census 2024 Gazetteer and Vintage 2024 estimates; public acreage within 10 miles is a GIS measure over ADCNR WMA, SOA and Forever Wild layers and USFS, USFWS, Corps, NPS and TVA boundaries; districts from the ADCNR district offices page (counties.json). Checked November 1, 2026.
Alabama hunting towns from the Tennessee Valley to Mobile Bay
Bold pins mark towns with 20,000 acres or more of public ground inside 10 miles; each pin opens its town page.
Alabama towns with the most public land inside 10 miles
Acreage is the GIS area of ADCNR WMAs, Special Opportunity Areas and Forever Wild tracts open to hunting, national forest land, refuge land, Corps fee land, TVA land and Little River Canyon National Preserve inside each town’s 10-mile circle, with overlaps counted once. State parks are left out of the figure, since hunting is not generally allowed in them.
Deer zones of the counties behind Alabama’s hunting towns
Alabama’s deer zone lines follow highways and rivers, so a county can sit in two zones. Zones C, D and E and the CWD Management Zone come from the counties ADCNR names in the regulations; Zones A and B come from shading on the ADCNR zone map. A town is counted under every zone its county touches, so the column adds up to more than the number of towns. Each town page says which zones apply and links the map.
Alabama towns with no public land inside 10 miles
31 of the 151 towns have no listed hunting land inside the 10-mile ring, among them Birmingham, Montgomery and Tuscaloosa; their pages rank the closest WMAs and other areas by miles to each mapped point.
| Town | County | Closest public land | Miles to point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashville | St. Clair County | Fort McClellan Training Center – Clarke Range Complex | 20 mi |
| Birmingham | Jefferson County | Oak Mountain State Park SOA | 13 mi |
| Brewton | Escambia County | Boggy Hollow WMA | 25 mi |
| Butler | Choctaw County | Choctaw NWR | 20 mi |
| Carrollton | Pickens County | Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Corps) | 15 mi |
| Chatom | Washington County | Upper State PDHA | 17 mi |
| Cullman | Cullman County | Lewis Smith PDHA | 23 mi |
| Dothan | Houston County | Fort Novosel | 23 mi |
| Eutaw | Greene County | M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area | 19 mi |
| Evergreen | Conecuh County | Red Hills WMA | 31 mi |
| Gadsden | Etowah County | Fort McClellan Training Center – Clarke Range Complex | 20 mi |
| Geneva | Geneva County | Geneva State Forest WMA | 21 mi |
| Grove Hill | Clarke County | Upper State SOA | 15 mi |
| Gulf Shores | Baldwin County | Blackwater River SOA | 20 mi |
| Guntersville | Marshall County | Sauta Cave NWR | 18 mi |
| Hodges | Franklin County | Freedom Hills WMA | 24 mi |
| Jasper | Walker County | Lewis Smith PDHA | 11 mi |
| La Fayette | Chambers County | West Point Lake (Corps) | 13 mi |
| Livingston | Sumter County | David K. Nelson WMA | 19 mi |
| Luverne | Crenshaw County | Dozier PDHA | 18 mi |
| Marion | Perry County | Oakmulgee Ranger District | 16 mi |
| Montgomery | Montgomery County | Prairie Glades SOA | 10 mi |
| Oneonta | Blount County | Lewis Smith PDHA | 34 mi |
| Opelika | Lee County | Macon State Forest PDHA | 16 mi |
| Pell City | St. Clair County | Fort McClellan Training Center – Clarke Range Complex | 21 mi |
| Phenix City | Russell County | Uchee Creek SOA | 14 mi |
| Pine Hill | Wilcox County | Alabama River Lakes (Corps) | 16 mi |
| Prattville | Autauga County | Prairie Glades SOA | 11 mi |
| Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa County | Black Warrior and Tombigbee Lakes (Corps) | 11 mi |
| Union Springs | Bullock County | Barbour WMA | 20 mi |
| Vernon | Lamar County | Fayette PDHA | 17 mi |
Base towns for Alabama WMAs, draw areas, forests and refuges
89 towns earned a page as the nearest town (an incorporated place of 250 or more people, or a Census-designated place) within 12 miles of a public area of 1,000 GIS acres or more: an ADCNR WMA or SOA, a national forest county part of 5,000 acres or more, a national wildlife refuge with 100 or more fee acres, Corps or TVA land, a Forever Wild tract open to hunting, or Little River Canyon. Where no place lay within 12 miles, the nearest within 20 miles was used. Anchors of 20,000 acres or more, and every forest, refuge, Corps project and the preserve, could add a second town lying within 8 miles of the area and 5 or more miles from the first pick. Seats of county government make up 10 of the base towns too. Anchors without a land page here (TVA reservoir land and a few tracts) are left out of the table.
Questions about Alabama’s town pages
What put an Alabama town on this list?
Being a county seat, having 50,000 or more residents (10 places), or being the closest town to a large WMA, Special Opportunity Area, Forever Wild tract, national forest county part, refuge, Corps or TVA land, or Little River Canyon. 151 towns qualified.
Which Alabama town has the most public ground within 10 miles?
White Plains leads with roughly 76,908 public acres inside its 10-mile ring, ahead of Creola and Nances Creek.
Which Alabama towns have no hunting land inside 10 miles?
Yes, 31: Ashville, Birmingham, Brewton, Butler, Carrollton, Chatom, Cullman, Dothan, Eutaw, Evergreen, Gadsden, Geneva, Grove Hill, Gulf Shores, Guntersville, Hodges, Jasper, La Fayette, Livingston, Luverne, Marion, Montgomery, Oneonta, Opelika, Pell City, Phenix City, Pine Hill, Prattville, Tuscaloosa, Union Springs and Vernon. Their pages rank the closest areas by distance instead.
Which WFF district holds the most towns on the list?
WFF District II, covering the northeast ridges, Lake Guntersville, the Talladega National Forest and the Coosa valley, with 36.
Are the big cities covered too?
Yes. Huntsville is the largest, at about 230,402 residents in the Vintage 2024 Census estimate. Huntsville, Mobile, Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Hoover publish with the first wave of Alabama pages.
Why is the population blank on some Alabama town pages?
26 of the towns are unincorporated Census-designated places, and the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 series estimates only incorporated cities and towns.
Are the distances on Alabama town pages road miles?
No. They are straight lines from the Census point of each town, measured to the closest boundary when the land lies inside 10 miles and to its mapped centre past that, so a drive will run longer.
Why do town pages list rules for several counties?
Deer zone lines follow roads and rivers, and dog deer limits, turkey and dove zones, the CWD Management Zone and the Mobile-Tensaw Delta waterfowl zone are set by county. Public land near a town often lies across a county line, so each page lists every county holding nearby land.
Which sections make up an Alabama town page?
Public land in reach with miles, kind, manager, acres and the way in, the county zones and rules, turkey harvest class and CWD tests, draw hunts and disabled-hunter areas within 45 miles, the season table, shooting hours, processors, taxidermists, shops, the ADCNR offices, nearby towns and answers to common questions.
From places.json (Census and ADCNR, USFS, USFWS, Corps, NPS and TVA layers), lands.json, counties.json and the 2026-2027 Alabama Hunting and Fishing Digest, checked November 1, 2026.
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