THE LOWNDES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blackland Prairie setting.
Lowndes County has 506.1 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Lowndes County: Blackland Prairie, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Lowndes County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blackland Prairie39.1%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins34.8%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces13.5%
- Fall Line Hills12.6%
Finding your parcel within Lowndes County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lowndes County, including Columbus, New Hope, Caledonia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lowndes County by land and water
The Census records 11 square miles of water within Lowndes County, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Lowndes County’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lowndes County has 20.2 times the land area of nearby Columbus city (25.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Monroe County, Noxubee County, Oktibbeha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

