In Houston County, Alabama, which covers Columbia, we have measured 17,120 parcels on septic and 22,374 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Columbia on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Columbia is a town in Houston County, Alabama. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 31.295351, -85.110202 and its land area at 3.93 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the town level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Houston County | 0 | 17,120 | 22,374 | county portal | no account needed |
We have not yet collected septic documents from Houston County, Alabama, so for a Columbia property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 17,120 of 39,494 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Columbia address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Houston County, Alabama, which covers Columbia, we have measured 17,120 parcels on septic and 22,374 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Columbia on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Columbia is in Houston County, Alabama.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Columbia’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Columbia.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Houston County, Alabama.