THE MARION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Pine Plains and Hills setting.
Marion County has 542.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Marion County: Southern Pine Plains and Hills, Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces.
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
Marion County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills81%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces18.9%
Finding your parcel within Marion County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marion County, including Columbia, Foxworth, Kokomo. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marion County by land and water
The Census records 6.29 square miles of water within Marion County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Marion County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marion County has 48.8 times the land area of nearby Columbia city (11.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jefferson Davis County, Lamar County, Lawrence County, Pearl River County, Walthall County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

