THE CLARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Athens Plateau setting.
Clark County has 866 square miles of land in Arkansas. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Clark County: Athens Plateau, Floodplains and Low Terraces, Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Clark County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Athens Plateau27.7%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces20.6%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands19.1%
- Blackland Prairie17.2%
- Tertiary Uplands9.4%
South Central Plains in Clark County
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Clark County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Clark County, including Arkadelphia, Amity, Caddo Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Clark County by land and water
The Census records 17 square miles of water within Clark County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Clark County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clark County has 2,214.8 times the land area of nearby Gum Springs town (0.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dallas County, Hot Spring County, Montgomery County, Nevada County, Ouachita County, Pike County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

