THE PANOLA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Panola County has 685.2 square miles of land in Mississippi. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Panola County: Loess Plains, Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains, among others.
Windblown loess blankets irregular plains and rolling hills, with steeper bluffs near the Mississippi River. Flatter eastern areas contrast with the more deeply cut bluff country.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Panola County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains59.2%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain17.3%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains16.6%
- Bluff Hills6.2%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts0.6%
Southeastern Plains in Panola County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Panola County
The Mississippi's broad alluvial plain includes river terraces, swales and natural levees. Small changes in elevation distinguish local settings within this generally flat river landscape.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Panola County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Panola County, including Batesville, Sardis, Como. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Panola County by land and water
The Census records 20 square miles of water within Panola County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Panola County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Panola County has 34.3 times the land area of nearby Batesville city (20 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lafayette County, Quitman County, Tallahatchie County, Tate County, Tunica County, Yalobusha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

