THE RED RIVER PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Red River Parish has 389 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Red River Parish: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, Tertiary Uplands.
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
Red River Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces44.1%
- Red River Bottomlands42.1%
- Tertiary Uplands13.8%
Finding your parcel within Red River Parish
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Red River Parish, including Martin, Coushatta, Hall Summit. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Red River Parish by land and water
The Census records 13.2 square miles of water within Red River Parish, or 3.3% of its total area. That share is close to Red River Parish’s 3.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Red River Parish has 1,568.5 times the land area of nearby Edgefield village (0.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, De Soto Parish, Natchitoches Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.