THE EAST FELICIANA PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
East Feliciana Parish has 453.3 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across East Feliciana Parish: Southern Rolling Plains, Baton Rouge Terrace, Southern Holocene Meander Belts.
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
East Feliciana Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Rolling Plains93%
- Baton Rouge Terrace6.4%
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts0.6%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in East Feliciana 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 East Feliciana Parish
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with East Feliciana Parish, including Slaughter, Jackson, Norwood. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
East Feliciana Parish by land and water
The Census records 2.38 square miles of water within East Feliciana Parish, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to East Feliciana Parish’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, East Feliciana Parish has 165.4 times the land area of nearby Clinton town (2.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets East Baton Rouge Parish, St. Helena Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, West Feliciana Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.