THE GARLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Mountain Ranges setting.
Garland County has 677.6 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Garland County: Central Mountain Ranges, Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys, Fourche Mountains.
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.
Regional context: Ouachita Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Garland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Mountain Ranges51.4%
- Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys37.5%
- Fourche Mountains11.1%
Finding your parcel within Garland County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Garland County, including Hot Springs Village, Hot Springs, Piney. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Garland County by land and water
The Census records 56.9 square miles of water within Garland County, or 7.8% of its total area. That share is close to Garland County’s 7.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Garland County has 408 times the land area of nearby Mountain Pine city (1.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hot Spring County, Montgomery County, Perry County, Saline County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

