THE LEFLORE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Leflore County has 594.1 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Leflore County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Northern Backswamps, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains.
The Mississippi's broad alluvial plain includes river terraces, swales and natural levees. Small changes in elevation distinguish local settings within this generally flat river landscape.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Leflore County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts70.4%
- Northern Backswamps26.1%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains3.5%
Finding your parcel within Leflore County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Leflore County, including Greenwood, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Leflore County by land and water
The Census records 12.3 square miles of water within Leflore County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Leflore County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Leflore County has 331 times the land area of nearby Mississippi Valley State University CDP (1.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Grenada County, Holmes County, Humphreys County, Sunflower County, Tallahatchie County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.