THE PIKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Pine Plains and Hills setting.
Pike County has 409.2 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pike County: Southern Pine Plains and Hills, Southern Rolling Plains.
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
Pike County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Pine Plains and Hills72.2%
- Southern Rolling Plains27.8%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Pike County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pike County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pike County, including McComb, Magnolia, Summit. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pike County by land and water
The Census records 1.51 square miles of water within Pike County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Pike County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pike County has 206.1 times the land area of nearby Fernwood CDP (1.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Amite County, Lincoln County, Walthall County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

