THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Lincoln County has 559.5 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps, Tertiary Uplands, among others.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts33.5%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps25.3%
- Tertiary Uplands24.1%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces16.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces0.7%
South Central Plains in Lincoln County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Star City, Grady, Gould. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 10.3 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 116.5 times the land area of nearby Star City city (4.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arkansas County, Cleveland County, Desha County, Drew County, Jefferson County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

