THE BIENVILLE PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Bienville Parish has 811.3 square miles of land in Louisiana. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Bienville Parish: Tertiary Uplands, Southern Tertiary Uplands, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, among others.
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
Bienville Parish intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands53.5%
- Southern Tertiary Uplands24.9%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces20.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces0.5%
- Red River Bottomlands0.2%
Finding your parcel within Bienville Parish
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bienville Parish, including Bienville, Lucky, Mount Lebanon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bienville Parish by land and water
The Census records 10.8 square miles of water within Bienville Parish, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Bienville Parish’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bienville Parish has 73.5 times the land area of nearby Bienville village (11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bossier Parish, Claiborne Parish, Jackson Parish, Lincoln Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Red River Parish, Webster Parish, Winn Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.