THE SHARKEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Backswamps setting.
Sharkey County has 431.7 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Sharkey County: Northern Backswamps, Northern Holocene Meander Belts.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Sharkey County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Backswamps77.9%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts22.1%
Finding your parcel within Sharkey County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sharkey County, including Delta City, Rolling Fork, Anguilla. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sharkey County by land and water
The Census records 3.4 square miles of water within Sharkey County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Sharkey County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sharkey County has 305.8 times the land area of nearby Rolling Fork city (1.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Humphreys County, Issaquena County, Washington County, Yazoo County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.