THE CLEVELAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Cleveland County has 597.9 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cleveland County: Tertiary Uplands, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cleveland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands70.1%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces15.9%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces14%
Finding your parcel within Cleveland County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cleveland County, including Rye, Rison, New Edinburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cleveland County by land and water
The Census records 0.99 square miles of water within Cleveland County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Cleveland County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cleveland County has 182.6 times the land area of nearby Rison city (3.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bradley County, Calhoun County, Dallas County, Drew County, Grant County, Jefferson County, Lincoln County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

