THE FAULKNER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas Valley Hills setting.
Faulkner County has 647.2 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Faulkner County: Arkansas Valley Hills, Arkansas Valley Plains, Fourche Mountains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Faulkner County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas Valley Hills51.8%
- Arkansas Valley Plains20.4%
- Fourche Mountains15.4%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains6.7%
- Arkansas River Floodplain5.7%
Ouachita Mountains in Faulkner County
Long east-west ridges formed from folded sedimentary rock define the Ouachitas. Forested slopes and narrow intervening valleys differ from the plateaus and broad lowlands around the range.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Faulkner County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Faulkner County, including Conway, Vilonia, Greenbrier. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Faulkner County by land and water
The Census records 16.8 square miles of water within Faulkner County, or 2.5% of its total area. That share is close to Faulkner County’s 2.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Faulkner County has 96.2 times the land area of nearby Holland city (6.73 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cleburne County, Conway County, Lonoke County, Perry County, Pulaski County, Van Buren County, White County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

