THE MER ROUGE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Mer Rouge village has 1.17 square miles of land in Morehouse Parish. Its Census reference point is in Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, within Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
The Mississippi's broad alluvial plain includes river terraces, swales and natural levees. Small changes in elevation distinguish local settings within this generally flat river landscape.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Mer Rouge and Morehouse Parish
Mer Rouge is associated with Morehouse Parish in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Mer Rouge by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Mer Rouge, or 0.7% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points lower than the 1.4% recorded for Morehouse Parish. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mer Rouge village has 13.7% of the land area of nearby Bastrop city (8.56 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

