THE CAMERON PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Marshes setting.
Cameron Parish has 1,284.6 square miles of land in Louisiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cameron Parish: Texas-Louisiana Coastal Marshes, Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies.
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
Cameron Parish intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Marshes91%
- Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies9%
Finding your parcel within Cameron Parish
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cameron Parish, including Hackberry, Cameron. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cameron Parish by land and water
The Census records 652.1 square miles of water within Cameron Parish, or 33.7% of its total area. That share is close to Cameron Parish’s 33.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cameron Parish has 112.4 times the land area of nearby Cameron CDP (11.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Vermilion Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

![Bald cypress - Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge[1] — Cameron Parish, Louisiana](/location-photos/louisiana/22023/sell-my-land-cameron-parish-la-v2-1920.jpg)