THE SCOTT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fourche Mountains setting.
Scott County has 892.9 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Scott County: Fourche Mountains, Arkansas Valley Plains, Scattered High Ridges and Mountains.
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
Scott County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fourche Mountains64%
- Arkansas Valley Plains19.2%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains16.8%
Arkansas Valley in Scott County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Scott County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Scott County, including Waldron, Boles, Mansfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Scott County by land and water
The Census records 5.55 square miles of water within Scott County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Scott County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Scott County has 158.5 times the land area of nearby Waldron city (5.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Logan County, Montgomery County, Polk County, Sebastian County, Yell County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

