THE CLEBURNE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas Valley Hills setting.
Cleburne County has 554 square miles of land in Arkansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cleburne County: Arkansas Valley Hills, Lower Boston Mountains.
The Arkansas Valley mixes forested ridges with broader valleys. Its terrain is less rugged than the Boston and Ouachita mountains that border it, but more varied than neighboring plains.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cleburne County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas Valley Hills52.9%
- Lower Boston Mountains47.1%
Boston Mountains in Cleburne County
A deeply eroded sandstone-and-shale plateau creates the Boston Mountains' rugged valleys and uplands. Oak and hickory forests are prominent, with pine and cedar in some lower or exposed settings.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cleburne County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cleburne County, including Fairfield Bay, Tumbling Shoals, Heber Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cleburne County by land and water
The Census records 38.2 square miles of water within Cleburne County, or 6.4% of its total area. That share is close to Cleburne County’s 6.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cleburne County has 54.7 times the land area of nearby Tumbling Shoals CDP (10.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Faulkner County, Independence County, Stone County, Van Buren County, White County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

