THE KEMPER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Kemper County has 766.2 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Kemper County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, Blackland 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
Kemper County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain67.1%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins24.5%
- Blackland Prairie8.4%
Finding your parcel within Kemper County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kemper County, including Bogue Chitto, De Kalb, Scooba. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kemper County by land and water
The Census records 0.84 square miles of water within Kemper County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Kemper County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kemper County has 230.8 times the land area of nearby De Kalb town (3.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lauderdale County, Neshoba County, Newton County, Noxubee County, Winston County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

