THE YELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fourche Mountains setting.
Yell County has 930.4 square miles of land in Arkansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Yell County: Fourche Mountains, Arkansas Valley Plains, Scattered High Ridges and 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
Yell County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fourche Mountains49.6%
- Arkansas Valley Plains32.3%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains14.4%
- Arkansas River Floodplain3.7%
Arkansas Valley in Yell 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 Yell County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Yell County, including Danville, Dardanelle, Rover. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Yell County by land and water
The Census records 18.1 square miles of water within Yell County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Yell County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Yell County has 267.5 times the land area of nearby Rover CDP (3.48 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Conway County, Garland County, Logan County, Montgomery County, Perry County, Pope County, Scott County within Arkansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

