THE HINDS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Hinds County has 869.8 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hinds County: Loess Plains, Southern Rolling Plains, Bluff Hills.
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
Hinds County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains79.3%
- Southern Rolling Plains19.2%
- Bluff Hills1.5%
Finding your parcel within Hinds County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hinds County, including Jackson, Clinton, Byram. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hinds County by land and water
The Census records 7.44 square miles of water within Hinds County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Hinds County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hinds County has 301.9 times the land area of nearby Raymond city (2.88 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Claiborne County, Copiah County, Madison County, Rankin County, Simpson County, Warren County, Yazoo County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.