THE FRANKLIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
Franklin County has 564 square miles of land in Mississippi. The mapped landscape region in Franklin County is Southern Rolling Plains.
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
Finding your parcel within Franklin County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Franklin County, including Roxie, Bude, Meadville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Franklin County by land and water
The Census records 2.8 square miles of water within Franklin County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Franklin County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Franklin County has 464.9 times the land area of nearby Meadville town (1.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Amite County, Jefferson County, Lincoln County, Wilkinson County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

