THE MONROE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blackland Prairie setting.
Monroe County has 765.1 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Monroe County: Blackland Prairie, Fall Line Hills, 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
Monroe County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blackland Prairie35.4%
- Fall Line Hills33.3%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces15.7%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins15.6%
Finding your parcel within Monroe County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Monroe County, including Amory, Aberdeen, Nettleton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Monroe County by land and water
The Census records 6.93 square miles of water within Monroe County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Monroe County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Monroe County has 63.3 times the land area of nearby Aberdeen city (12.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chickasaw County, Clay County, Itawamba County, Lee County, Lowndes County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

