THE PIKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Athens Plateau setting.
Pike County has 600.3 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Pike County: Athens Plateau, Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, Central Mountain Ranges, 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
Pike County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Athens Plateau61.8%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands23.9%
- Central Mountain Ranges5.8%
- Blackland Prairie5.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3%
South Central Plains in Pike County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pike County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pike County, including Kirby, Glenwood, Murfreesboro. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pike County by land and water
The Census records 13.6 square miles of water within Pike County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Pike County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pike County has 163.3 times the land area of nearby Murfreesboro city (3.68 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Hempstead County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Nevada County, Polk County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

