THE CONWAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas Valley Hills setting.
Conway County has 552 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Conway County: Arkansas Valley Hills, Arkansas Valley Plains, Arkansas River Floodplain, among others.
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
Conway County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas Valley Hills55.8%
- Arkansas Valley Plains24.3%
- Arkansas River Floodplain10.8%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains6.4%
- Lower Boston Mountains2.7%
Boston Mountains in Conway 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 Conway County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Conway County, including Center Ridge, Morrilton, Oppelo. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Conway County by land and water
The Census records 14.5 square miles of water within Conway County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Conway County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Conway County has 224.8 times the land area of nearby Hattieville CDP (2.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Faulkner County, Perry County, Pope County, Van Buren County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

