THE JASPER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Jasper County has 676.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jasper County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Jackson Prairie.
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
Jasper County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain76.5%
- Jackson Prairie23.5%
Finding your parcel within Jasper County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jasper County, including Bay Springs, Louin, Heidelberg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jasper County by land and water
The Census records 1.21 square miles of water within Jasper County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Jasper County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jasper County has 45.3 times the land area of nearby Bay Springs city (14.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Jones County, Lauderdale County, Newton County, Scott County, Smith County, Wayne County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

