THE WEBSTER PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces setting.
Webster Parish has 593.3 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Webster Parish: Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Webster Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces55.6%
- Tertiary Uplands33.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces11.1%
Finding your parcel within Webster Parish
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Webster Parish, including Minden, Shongaloo, Springhill. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Webster Parish by land and water
The Census records 21.6 square miles of water within Webster Parish, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Webster Parish’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Webster Parish has 225.4 times the land area of nearby Cotton Valley town (2.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Claiborne Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.