THE PENCIL BLUFF LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys setting.
Pencil Bluff CDP has 0.53 square miles of land in Montgomery County. Its Census reference point is in Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys, within Ouachita Mountains.
Long east-west ridges formed from folded sedimentary rock define the Ouachitas. Forested slopes and narrow intervening valleys differ from the plateaus and broad lowlands around the range.
Regional context: Ouachita Mountains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Pencil Bluff and Montgomery County
Pencil Bluff is associated with Montgomery 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.
Pencil Bluff by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Pencil Bluff, or 0.9% of its total area. It is 1.6 percentage points lower than the 2.6% recorded for Montgomery County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pencil Bluff CDP has 64.9% of the land area of nearby Oden town (0.81 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

