THE POPE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas Valley Hills setting.
Pope County has 811 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Pope County: Arkansas Valley Hills, Lower Boston Mountains, Arkansas Valley Plains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pope County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas Valley Hills40.1%
- Lower Boston Mountains36.4%
- Arkansas Valley Plains13.6%
- Arkansas River Floodplain5.8%
- Upper Boston Mountains4.2%
Boston Mountains in Pope County
A deeply eroded sandstone-and-shale plateau creates the Boston Mountains' rugged valleys and uplands. Oak and hickory forests are prominent, with pine and cedar in some lower or exposed settings.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pope County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pope County, including Russellville, Pottsville, Atkins. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pope County by land and water
The Census records 19.6 square miles of water within Pope County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Pope County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pope County has 354.7 times the land area of nearby Hector town (2.29 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Conway County, Johnson County, Logan County, Newton County, Searcy County, Van Buren County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

