THE BOSSIER PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Bossier Parish has 839.6 square miles of land in Louisiana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Bossier Parish: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, Tertiary Uplands, 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
Bossier Parish intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces43.9%
- Red River Bottomlands28.3%
- Tertiary Uplands24.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3%
Finding your parcel within Bossier Parish
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bossier Parish, including Shreveport, Bossier City, Red Chute. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bossier Parish by land and water
The Census records 27.3 square miles of water within Bossier Parish, or 3.1% of its total area. That share is close to Bossier Parish’s 3.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bossier Parish has 333.7 times the land area of nearby Benton town (2.52 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bienville Parish, Caddo Parish, Red River Parish, Webster Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.