THE CONCORDIA PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Concordia Parish has 695.7 square miles of land in Louisiana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Concordia Parish: Southern Holocene Meander Belts, Southern Backswamps, Northern Holocene Meander Belts, among others.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Concordia Parish intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts61.5%
- Southern Backswamps35.6%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts2.6%
- Northern Backswamps0.3%
Finding your parcel within Concordia Parish
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Concordia Parish, including Minorca, Monterey, Vidalia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Concordia Parish by land and water
The Census records 51.7 square miles of water within Concordia Parish, or 6.9% of its total area. That share is close to Concordia Parish’s 6.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Concordia Parish has 245.5 times the land area of nearby Monterey CDP (2.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Avoyelles Parish, Catahoula Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, Tensas Parish, West Feliciana Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.