THE CRITTENDEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Crittenden County has 611.8 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Crittenden County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Northern Backswamps, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains.
The Mississippi's broad alluvial plain includes river terraces, swales and natural levees. Small changes in elevation distinguish local settings within this generally flat river landscape.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crittenden County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts81%
- Northern Backswamps17%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains1.9%
Finding your parcel within Crittenden County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crittenden County, including West Memphis, Marion, Gilmore. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crittenden County by land and water
The Census records 32 square miles of water within Crittenden County, or 5% of its total area. That share is close to Crittenden County’s 5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crittenden County has 1,094.5 times the land area of nearby Crawfordsville town (0.56 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cross County, Lee County, Mississippi County, Poinsett County, St. Francis County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.