THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
Lincoln County has 586.2 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Southern Rolling Plains, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Southern Pine Plains and Hills.
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Rolling Plains64.3%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain33.3%
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills2.4%
Southeastern Plains in Lincoln County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Brookhaven, Wesson, Bogue Chitto. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 2.04 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 27.1 times the land area of nearby Brookhaven city (21.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Amite County, Copiah County, Franklin County, Jefferson County, Lawrence County, Pike County, Walthall County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

