THE CHICKASAW COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins setting.
Chickasaw County has 501.8 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Chickasaw County: Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, Blackland Prairie, Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, among others.
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.
Regional context: Southeastern Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Chickasaw County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins44%
- Blackland Prairie31.9%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain17.4%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain6.7%
Finding your parcel within Chickasaw County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chickasaw County, including Houston, Okolona, New Houlka. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chickasaw County by land and water
The Census records 2.46 square miles of water within Chickasaw County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Chickasaw County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chickasaw County has 68 times the land area of nearby Houston city (7.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Clay County, Lee County, Monroe County, Pontotoc County, Webster County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

