THE PHILLIPS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains setting.
Phillips County has 690.4 square miles of land in Arkansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Phillips County: Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains, Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Bluff Hills, among others.
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
Phillips County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains66.8%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts24.7%
- Bluff Hills5.9%
- Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts2.5%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Phillips County
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Phillips County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Phillips County, including Helena-West Helena, Lake View, Marvell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Phillips County by land and water
The Census records 37.1 square miles of water within Phillips County, or 5.1% of its total area. That share is close to Phillips County’s 5.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Phillips County has 138 times the land area of nearby Lake View city (5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arkansas County, Desha County, Lee County, Monroe County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

