THE OKTIBBEHA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins setting.
Oktibbeha County has 457.6 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Oktibbeha County: Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, Blackland Prairie, Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain.
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
Oktibbeha County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins52%
- Blackland Prairie39.4%
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain8.6%
Finding your parcel within Oktibbeha County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Oktibbeha County, including Starkville, Mississippi State, Maben. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Oktibbeha County by land and water
The Census records 3.69 square miles of water within Oktibbeha County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Oktibbeha County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Oktibbeha County has 274.5 times the land area of nearby Longview CDP (1.67 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Choctaw County, Clay County, Lowndes County, Noxubee County, Webster County, Winston County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

