THE SALINE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys setting.
Saline County has 723.5 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Saline County: Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys, Tertiary Uplands, Fourche Mountains, 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
Saline County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Hills, Ridges, and Valleys51%
- Tertiary Uplands28.7%
- Fourche Mountains15.4%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3.2%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces1.8%
South Central Plains in Saline 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 Saline County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Saline County, including Hot Springs Village, Benton, Bryant. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Saline County by land and water
The Census records 6.93 square miles of water within Saline County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Saline County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Saline County has 114.4 times the land area of nearby Avilla CDP (6.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Garland County, Grant County, Hot Spring County, Perry County, Pulaski County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

