THE PULASKI COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fourche Mountains setting.
Pulaski County has 758.4 square miles of land in Arkansas. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Pulaski County: Fourche Mountains, Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, Tertiary Uplands, 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
Pulaski County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fourche Mountains50.3%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts23.2%
- Tertiary Uplands14%
- Arkansas River Floodplain4.3%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps2.9%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Pulaski County
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.
Read the regional source ↗South Central Plains in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pulaski County, including Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pulaski County by land and water
The Census records 49 square miles of water within Pulaski County, or 6.1% of its total area. That share is close to Pulaski County’s 6.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pulaski County has 2,679.8 times the land area of nearby Cammack Village city (0.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Faulkner County, Grant County, Jefferson County, Lonoke County, Perry County, Saline County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

