THE CALDWELL PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Caldwell Parish has 529.8 square miles of land in Louisiana. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Caldwell Parish: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps, Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts, 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
Caldwell Parish intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands54.9%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps20.5%
- Arkansas/Ouachita River Holocene Meander Belts14.6%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces7.4%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces1.4%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Caldwell Parish
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Caldwell Parish
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Caldwell Parish, including Banks Springs, Grayson, Clarks. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Caldwell Parish by land and water
The Census records 11.2 square miles of water within Caldwell Parish, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Caldwell Parish’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Caldwell Parish has 693.4 times the land area of nearby Columbia town (0.76 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Catahoula Parish, Franklin Parish, Jackson Parish, LaSalle Parish, Ouachita Parish, Richland Parish, Winn Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

