THE TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Tallahatchie County has 645.6 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Tallahatchie County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains, Bluff Hills, among others.
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
Tallahatchie County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts41.7%
- Northern Pleistocene Valley Trains29%
- Bluff Hills27.8%
- Loess Plains1.5%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tallahatchie County, including Tutwiler, Charleston, Sumner. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tallahatchie County by land and water
The Census records 6.55 square miles of water within Tallahatchie County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Tallahatchie County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tallahatchie County has 476.5 times the land area of nearby Charleston city (1.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coahoma County, Grenada County, Leflore County, Panola County, Quitman County, Sunflower County, Yalobusha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

