THE SUNFLOWER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Sunflower County has 697.8 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Sunflower County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Northern Backswamps, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains.
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
Sunflower County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts88.2%
- Northern Backswamps9.9%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains1.9%
Finding your parcel within Sunflower County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sunflower County, including Indianola, Ruleville, Inverness. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sunflower County by land and water
The Census records 9.17 square miles of water within Sunflower County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Sunflower County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sunflower County has 1,151.4 times the land area of nearby Sunflower town (0.61 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bolivar County, Coahoma County, Humphreys County, Leflore County, Tallahatchie County, Washington County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.