THE AMITE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
Amite County has 730.1 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Amite County: Southern Rolling Plains, Southern Pine Plains and Hills.
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Amite County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Rolling Plains88.7%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills11.3%
Southeastern Plains in Amite County
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Amite County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Amite County, including Centreville, Crosby, Liberty. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Amite County by land and water
The Census records 1.5 square miles of water within Amite County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Amite County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Amite County has 354.2 times the land area of nearby Liberty town (2.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Franklin County, Lincoln County, Pike County, Wilkinson County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

