THE ACADIA PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies setting.
Acadia Parish has 655.2 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Acadia Parish: Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies, Lafayette Loess Plains, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
Low coastal plains extend along the western Gulf, contrasting with more irregular inland country. Grassland was the principal natural cover, with river corridors and coastal features adding local variation.
Regional context: Western Gulf Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Acadia Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies69.9%
- Lafayette Loess Plains17.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces12.6%
Finding your parcel within Acadia Parish
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Acadia Parish, including Branch, Crowley, Eunice. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Acadia Parish by land and water
The Census records 2.29 square miles of water within Acadia Parish, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Acadia Parish’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Acadia Parish has 112 times the land area of nearby Crowley city (5.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Evangeline Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Lafayette Parish, St. Landry Parish, Vermilion Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.