Editing Cleburne County, Alabama (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Cleburne County Courthouse.jpg|thumb|Cleburne County Courthouse in March 1980.]][[File:Cheaha Lake in the Fall.jpg|thumb|[[Cheaha Mountain]], Cleburne County]]
[[File:Shoal Creek Church Edwardsville Alabama.JPG|thumb|[[Shoal Creek Church]] is a historic church located in Cleburne County just north of [[Edwardsville, Alabama|Edwardsville]], Alabama in [[Talladega National Forest]]. The church was built in 1895 and added to the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Alabama#Cleburne County|National Register of Historic Places]] on December 4, 1974]]

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|561|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|560|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|0.9|sqmi}} (0.2%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_01.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 22, 2015|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files}}</ref> It is the fourth-smallest county in Alabama by land area and second-largest by total area. Cleburne County is home to Alabama's highest natural point on [[Cheaha Mountain]] which is part of the southernmost mountain range in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

===Adjacent counties===
*[[Cherokee County, Alabama|Cherokee County]] – north
*[[Polk County, Georgia]] – northeast
*[[Haralson County, Georgia]] – east
*[[Carroll County, Georgia]] – southeast
*[[Randolph County, Alabama|Randolph County]] – south  
*[[Clay County, Alabama|Clay County]] – southwest
*[[Talladega County, Alabama|Talladega County]] – southwest
*[[Calhoun County, Alabama|Calhoun County]] – west

===National protected area===
* [[Talladega National Forest]] (part)