THE GREENE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bluff Hills setting.
Greene County has 577.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Greene County: Bluff Hills, St. Francis Lowlands, Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Greene County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bluff Hills38.6%
- St. Francis Lowlands27.6%
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains24.2%
- Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts9.5%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Greene 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 Greene County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Greene County, including Paragould, Oak Grove Heights, Lafe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Greene County by land and water
The Census records 2.03 square miles of water within Greene County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Greene County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Greene County has 192.8 times the land area of nearby Oak Grove Heights town (3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Craighead County, Lawrence County, Randolph County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

