THE CROSS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains setting.
Cross County has 616.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Cross County: Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains, Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Bluff Hills, among others.
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
Cross County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains50.5%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts22.8%
- Bluff Hills13.8%
- St. Francis Lowlands12.7%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains0.2%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Cross County
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cross County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cross County, including Wynne, Cherry Valley, Parkin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cross County by land and water
The Census records 5.94 square miles of water within Cross County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Cross County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cross County has 604.8 times the land area of nearby Vanndale CDP (1.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crittenden County, Jackson County, Poinsett County, St. Francis County, Woodruff County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

