THE DREW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Drew County has 828.7 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Drew County: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Tertiary Uplands, Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, among others.
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
Drew County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces53.7%
- Tertiary Uplands20.7%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts10.7%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps8.4%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces6.5%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Drew County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Drew County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Drew County, including Monticello, Collins, Lacey. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Drew County by land and water
The Census records 7.26 square miles of water within Drew County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Drew County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Drew County has 77.3 times the land area of nearby Monticello city (10.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ashley County, Bradley County, Chicot County, Cleveland County, Desha County, Lincoln County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

