DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Alabama, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Alabama. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map that reads through the pine canopy, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Alabama
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Most of it is timber, and timber hides the ground.
Alabama land sells as planted pine, cutover and hardwood bottom, and all three photograph as one unbroken green mat from above. What a buyer wants to know is stand age, whether it has been thinned, where the drains and food plots sit, and whether the loading deck is still usable.
The four 3D views and the contour map are what separate ridge pine from creek bottom, which is the line between a hunting tract and a homesite.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel, everything below. Cumberland Plateau ground in Jackson County. Crop and pasture in the west running up into a hardwood block on the mountain, 582 feet of relief across 350 acres, and better than a mile of road frontage.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Alabama delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Alabama land actually trades.
These are among the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Alabama county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order an Alabama parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Alabama county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Planted pine and cutover timber, hardwood bottoms, pasture, and hunting tracts.
- Typical uses
- Timber and hunting land, rural homesites, pasture and farms, and recreational acreage.
- Reads well from above
- Planted pine in rows, fresh cuts, hardwood bottoms along creeks, open food plots and the logging or county road that reaches the tract.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel number on the tax record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting an Alabama tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Alabama ground.
Which Alabama counties can you do?
Any Alabama county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Which Alabama properties do people build packs for?
Planted pine and cutover timber, hardwood bottoms, pasture, and hunting tracts. Typical uses there: timber and hunting land, rural homesites, pasture and farms, and recreational acreage.
Will planted pine and cutover read differently on the imagery?
They do. Row structure in a planted stand, the raw ground of a recent cut and the rounded crowns of hardwood bottom are all visible from above, and the orbit video gives a sense of stand height that a flat photo flattens out. It is not a timber cruise and we would not sell it as one.
Can you show the creek, the food plots and the road in?
Yes. Drains and creek bottoms, open plots and the point where the county or logging road meets the line all read in the imagery, and the access view marks the frontage.
What is the number called on an Alabama tax record, and is that what I enter?
In Alabama, the number to look for is the parcel number on the tax record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer read from above on Alabama timber and pasture?
Planted pine in rows, fresh cuts, hardwood bottoms along creeks, open food plots and the logging or county road that reaches the tract. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Alabama parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.