THE PRENTISS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fall Line Hills setting.
Prentiss County has 415 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Prentiss County: Fall Line Hills, Blackland Prairie, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins, 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
Prentiss County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fall Line Hills33.7%
- Blackland Prairie31.4%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins28.1%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain6.7%
Finding your parcel within Prentiss County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Prentiss County, including Booneville, Baldwyn, New Site. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Prentiss County by land and water
The Census records 3.21 square miles of water within Prentiss County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Prentiss County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Prentiss County has 16.1 times the land area of nearby Booneville city (25.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alcorn County, Itawamba County, Lee County, Tippah County, Tishomingo County, Union County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

