THE DALLAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Dallas County has 667.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Dallas 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
Dallas County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands85.3%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces9.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces5.2%
Finding your parcel within Dallas County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dallas County, including Fordyce, Ivan, Sparkman. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dallas County by land and water
The Census records 0.67 square miles of water within Dallas County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Dallas County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dallas County has 988.6 times the land area of nearby Princeton CDP (0.68 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Clark County, Cleveland County, Grant County, Hot Spring County, Ouachita County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

