THE LAWRENCE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Lawrence County has 430.6 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lawrence County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, Southern Pine Plains and 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
Lawrence County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain70.6%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces21.8%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills7.6%
Finding your parcel within Lawrence County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lawrence County, including Monticello, Silver Creek, New Hebron. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lawrence County by land and water
The Census records 5.09 square miles of water within Lawrence County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Lawrence County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lawrence County has 103.2 times the land area of nearby Monticello town (4.17 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Copiah County, Jefferson Davis County, Lincoln County, Marion County, Simpson County, Walthall County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

