THE LITTLE RIVER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Little River County has 531.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Little River County: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Little River County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces49.4%
- Red River Bottomlands30.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces12%
- Blackland Prairie4.2%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands4%
Finding your parcel within Little River County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Little River County, including Ashdown, Alleene, Yarborough Landing. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Little River County by land and water
The Census records 32.1 square miles of water within Little River County, or 5.7% of its total area. That share is close to Little River County’s 5.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Little River County has 242.4 times the land area of nearby Alleene CDP (2.19 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hempstead County, Howard County, Miller County, Sevier County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.