THE LAFAYETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Lafayette County has 529.5 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lafayette County: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, Tertiary Uplands.
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
Lafayette County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces48.9%
- Red River Bottomlands27.1%
- Tertiary Uplands24%
Finding your parcel within Lafayette County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lafayette County, including Stamps, Lewisville, Buckner. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lafayette County by land and water
The Census records 16.6 square miles of water within Lafayette County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Lafayette County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lafayette County has 246.5 times the land area of nearby Lewisville city (2.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Columbia County, Hempstead County, Miller County, Nevada County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.