THE PERRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fourche Mountains setting.
Perry County has 551.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Perry County: Fourche Mountains, Arkansas Valley Plains, Arkansas River Floodplain, 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
Perry County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fourche Mountains79.3%
- Arkansas Valley Plains10.3%
- Arkansas River Floodplain5.7%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains4.8%
Arkansas Valley in Perry County
The Arkansas Valley mixes forested ridges with broader valleys. Its terrain is less rugged than the Boston and Ouachita mountains that border it, but more varied than neighboring plains.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Perry County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Perry County, including Perryville, Aplin, Casa. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Perry County by land and water
The Census records 9.43 square miles of water within Perry County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Perry County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Perry County has 245.7 times the land area of nearby Aplin CDP (2.24 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Conway County, Faulkner County, Garland County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

