THE SMITH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Smith County has 636.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Smith County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Jackson Prairie.
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
Smith County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain92.7%
- Jackson Prairie7.3%
Finding your parcel within Smith County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Smith County, including Polkville, Raleigh, Taylorsville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Smith County by land and water
The Census records 1 square miles of water within Smith County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Smith County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Smith County has 124.9 times the land area of nearby Raleigh town (5.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Covington County, Jasper County, Jones County, Newton County, Rankin County, Scott County, Simpson County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

