THE UNION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Union County has 1,039.1 square miles of land in Arkansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Union County: Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces.
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
Union County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands88.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces8.4%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces3.1%
Finding your parcel within Union County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Union County, including El Dorado, Smackover, Lawson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Union County by land and water
The Census records 16.3 square miles of water within Union County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Union County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Union County has 64.1 times the land area of nearby El Dorado city (16.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ashley County, Bradley County, Calhoun County, Columbia County, Ouachita County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

