THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Lauderdale County has 703.7 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Lauderdale County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Buhrstone/Lime Hills.
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
Lauderdale County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain74.7%
- Buhrstone/Lime Hills25.3%
Finding your parcel within Lauderdale County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lauderdale County, including Meridian, Collinsville, Nellieburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lauderdale County by land and water
The Census records 11.5 square miles of water within Lauderdale County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Lauderdale County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lauderdale County has 194.7 times the land area of nearby Marion town (3.61 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Jasper County, Kemper County, Neshoba County, Newton County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

