THE COPIAH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
Copiah County has 777.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Copiah County: Southern Rolling Plains, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Copiah County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Rolling Plains93.4%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain5.5%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces0.8%
- Bluff Hills0.3%
Southeastern Plains in Copiah 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 Copiah County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Copiah County, including Crystal Springs, Wesson, Hazlehurst. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Copiah County by land and water
The Census records 2.18 square miles of water within Copiah County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Copiah County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Copiah County has 175.5 times the land area of nearby Hazlehurst city (4.43 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Claiborne County, Hinds County, Jefferson County, Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Rankin County, Simpson County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

