THE MONROE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains setting.
Monroe County has 607.5 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Monroe County: Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains, Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts, Grand Prairie.
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
Monroe County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains66.7%
- Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts28.1%
- Grand Prairie5.2%
Finding your parcel within Monroe County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Monroe County, including Brinkley, Clarendon, Holly Grove. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Monroe County by land and water
The Census records 13.8 square miles of water within Monroe County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Monroe County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monroe County has 604.4 times the land area of nearby Holly Grove city (1.01 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arkansas County, Lee County, Phillips County, Prairie County, St. Francis County, Woodruff County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

