THE POINTE COUPEE PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Backswamps setting.
Pointe Coupee Parish has 555.5 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Pointe Coupee Parish: Southern Backswamps, Southern Holocene Meander Belts, Inland Swamps.
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
Pointe Coupee Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Backswamps70.9%
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts25%
- Inland Swamps4.1%
Finding your parcel within Pointe Coupee Parish
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pointe Coupee Parish, including New Roads, Fordoche, Ventress. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pointe Coupee Parish by land and water
The Census records 34.9 square miles of water within Pointe Coupee Parish, or 5.9% of its total area. That share is close to Pointe Coupee Parish’s 5.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pointe Coupee Parish has 461 times the land area of nearby Morganza village (1.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Avoyelles Parish, Concordia Parish, Iberville Parish, St. Landry Parish, St. Martin 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.

