THE VAN BUREN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lower Boston Mountains setting.
Van Buren County has 709.6 square miles of land in Arkansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Van Buren County: Lower Boston Mountains, Arkansas Valley Hills.
A deeply eroded sandstone-and-shale plateau creates the Boston Mountains' rugged valleys and uplands. Oak and hickory forests are prominent, with pine and cedar in some lower or exposed settings.
Regional context: Boston Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Van Buren County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lower Boston Mountains63.4%
- Arkansas Valley Hills36.6%
Arkansas Valley in Van Buren 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 Van Buren County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Van Buren County, including Dennard, Fairfield Bay, Clinton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Van Buren County by land and water
The Census records 14.4 square miles of water within Van Buren County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Van Buren County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Van Buren County has 54.3 times the land area of nearby Clinton city (13.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cleburne County, Conway County, Faulkner County, Pope County, Searcy County, Stone County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

