THE SEVIER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cretaceous Dissected Uplands setting.
Sevier County has 563.6 square miles of land in Arkansas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Sevier County: Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, Athens Plateau, Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Sevier County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands45.5%
- Athens Plateau26.6%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces21.6%
- Blackland Prairie5.3%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces0.9%
Ouachita Mountains in Sevier County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Sevier County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sevier County, including De Queen, Ben Lomond, Lockesburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sevier County by land and water
The Census records 17.7 square miles of water within Sevier County, or 3.1% of its total area. That share is close to Sevier County’s 3.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sevier County has 161.8 times the land area of nearby Lockesburg city (3.48 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Howard County, Little River County, Polk County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

