THE IBERVILLE PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Inland Swamps setting.
Iberville Parish has 617.3 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Iberville Parish: Inland Swamps, Southern Holocene Meander Belts, Southern Backswamps.
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
Iberville Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Inland Swamps80.5%
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts14.6%
- Southern Backswamps4.9%
Finding your parcel within Iberville Parish
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Iberville Parish, including St. Gabriel, Rosedale, Plaquemine. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Iberville Parish by land and water
The Census records 35.7 square miles of water within Iberville Parish, or 5.5% of its total area. That share is close to Iberville Parish’s 5.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Iberville Parish has 370.5 times the land area of nearby Crescent CDP (1.67 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ascension Parish, Assumption Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, Iberia Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, St. Martin Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.