THE BOLIVAR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Bolivar County has 876.5 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Bolivar County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains.
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
Bolivar County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts73.2%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains26.7%
Finding your parcel within Bolivar County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bolivar County, including Cleveland, Rosedale, Skene. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bolivar County by land and water
The Census records 31.4 square miles of water within Bolivar County, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Bolivar County’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bolivar County has 5,728.8 times the land area of nearby Pace town (0.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coahoma County, Sunflower County, Washington County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.