THE CADDO PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Caddo Parish has 879.5 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Caddo Parish: Tertiary Uplands, Red River Bottomlands, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces.
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
Caddo Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands62.4%
- Red River Bottomlands27.8%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces9.9%
Finding your parcel within Caddo Parish
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caddo Parish, including Shreveport, Greenwood, Vivian. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caddo Parish by land and water
The Census records 57.5 square miles of water within Caddo Parish, or 6.1% of its total area. That share is close to Caddo Parish’s 6.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caddo Parish has 253.8 times the land area of nearby Blanchard town (3.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bossier Parish, De Soto Parish, Red River Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.