THE NEWTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Newton County has 577.8 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Newton County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Jackson Prairie, Buhrstone/Lime Hills.
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
Newton County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain88.2%
- Jackson Prairie9.4%
- Buhrstone/Lime Hills2.4%
Finding your parcel within Newton County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Newton County, including Conehatta, Newton, Decatur. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Newton County by land and water
The Census records 1.75 square miles of water within Newton County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Newton County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Newton County has 104.8 times the land area of nearby Decatur town (5.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clarke County, Jasper County, Kemper County, Lauderdale County, Leake County, Neshoba County, Scott County, Smith County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

