THE GRANT PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Grant Parish has 643.8 square miles of land in Louisiana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Grant Parish: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, 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
Grant Parish intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands62.7%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces19.6%
- Red River Bottomlands12.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces4.8%
Finding your parcel within Grant Parish
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grant Parish, including Pollock, Rock Hill, Montgomery. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grant Parish by land and water
The Census records 21.1 square miles of water within Grant Parish, or 3.2% of its total area. That share is close to Grant Parish’s 3.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grant Parish has 464.5 times the land area of nearby Dry Prong village (1.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets LaSalle Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Rapides Parish, Winn Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.