THE NEVADA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Nevada County has 617.8 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Nevada County: Tertiary Uplands, Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, Blackland Prairie, 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
Nevada County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands62.4%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands15.9%
- Blackland Prairie10.1%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces6.3%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces5.2%
Finding your parcel within Nevada County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nevada County, including Prescott, Rosston, Bodcaw. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nevada County by land and water
The Census records 2.89 square miles of water within Nevada County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Nevada County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nevada County has 639.5 times the land area of nearby Cale town (0.97 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Columbia County, Hempstead County, Lafayette County, Ouachita County, Pike County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

