THE GRENADA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Grenada County has 422.1 square miles of land in Mississippi. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Grenada County: Loess Plains, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, 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
Grenada County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains32.2%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain28.2%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain20.9%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains12.3%
- Bluff Hills5.8%
Southeastern Plains in Grenada 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 ↗Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Grenada County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Grenada County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grenada County, including Grenada, Holcomb, Elliott. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grenada County by land and water
The Census records 27.3 square miles of water within Grenada County, or 6.1% of its total area. That share is close to Grenada County’s 6.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grenada County has 14.1 times the land area of nearby Grenada city (30 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Carroll County, Leflore County, Montgomery County, Tallahatchie County, Webster County, Yalobusha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

