THE HEMPSTEAD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cretaceous Dissected Uplands setting.
Hempstead County has 727.2 square miles of land in Arkansas. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Hempstead County: Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, Blackland Prairie, Tertiary Uplands, 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
Hempstead County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands38.3%
- Blackland Prairie29.2%
- Tertiary Uplands18.4%
- Red River Bottomlands7.2%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3.9%
Finding your parcel within Hempstead County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hempstead County, including Hope, Saratoga, Emmet. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hempstead County by land and water
The Census records 13.8 square miles of water within Hempstead County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Hempstead County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hempstead County has 15,808.7 times the land area of nearby Oakhaven town (0.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Howard County, Lafayette County, Little River County, Miller County, Nevada County, Pike County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

