THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lower Boston Mountains setting.
Crawford County has 595.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Lower Boston Mountains, Arkansas Valley Hills, Arkansas River Floodplain, among others.
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.
Regional context: Boston Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crawford County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lower Boston Mountains61.6%
- Arkansas Valley Hills15.8%
- Arkansas River Floodplain11.5%
- Arkansas Valley Plains9.7%
- Upper Boston Mountains1.4%
Arkansas Valley in Crawford County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Crawford County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Van Buren, Cedarville, Mulberry. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 10.4 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 365.9 times the land area of nearby Rudy town (1.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Franklin County, Madison County, Sebastian County, Washington County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

