THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys setting.
Montgomery County has 780.5 square miles of land in Arkansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Montgomery County: Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys, Central Mountain Ranges, Fourche Mountains, among others.
Long east-west ridges formed from folded sedimentary rock define the Ouachitas. Forested slopes and narrow intervening valleys differ from the plateaus and broad lowlands around the range.
Regional context: Ouachita Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Montgomery County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys46.5%
- Central Mountain Ranges38.6%
- Fourche Mountains13.8%
- Athens Plateau1.2%
Finding your parcel within Montgomery County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montgomery County, including Glenwood, Mount Ida, Norman. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montgomery County by land and water
The Census records 20.5 square miles of water within Montgomery County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Montgomery County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montgomery County has 497.4 times the land area of nearby Mount Ida city (1.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Garland County, Hot Spring County, Howard County, Pike County, Polk County, Scott County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

