THE WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Backswamps setting.
West Baton Rouge Parish has 192.3 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across West Baton Rouge 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
West Baton Rouge Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Backswamps75%
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts22.9%
- Inland Swamps2.2%
Finding your parcel within West Baton Rouge Parish
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with West Baton Rouge Parish, including Erwinville, Addis, Port Allen. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
West Baton Rouge Parish by land and water
The Census records 11.4 square miles of water within West Baton Rouge Parish, or 5.6% of its total area. That share is close to West Baton Rouge Parish’s 5.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, West Baton Rouge Parish has 86.9 times the land area of nearby Brusly town (2.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, West Feliciana Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.