THE ARKANSAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Grand Prairie setting.
Arkansas County has 992.1 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Arkansas County: Grand Prairie, Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts, among others.
The Mississippi's broad alluvial plain includes river terraces, swales and natural levees. Small changes in elevation distinguish local settings within this generally flat river landscape.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Arkansas County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Grand Prairie71.3%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts13.3%
- Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts8.8%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps3.8%
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains2.8%
Finding your parcel within Arkansas County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Arkansas County, including Stuttgart, DeWitt, Humphrey. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Arkansas County by land and water
The Census records 46.6 square miles of water within Arkansas County, or 4.5% of its total area. That share is close to Arkansas County’s 4.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Arkansas County has 331.6 times the land area of nearby DeWitt city (2.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Desha County, Jefferson County, Lincoln County, Lonoke County, Monroe County, Phillips County, Prairie County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

