THE TISHOMINGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Transition Hills setting.
Tishomingo County has 424.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Tishomingo County: Transition Hills, Fall Line Hills, Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain.
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
Tishomingo County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Transition Hills52.4%
- Fall Line Hills47%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain0.7%
Finding your parcel within Tishomingo County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tishomingo County, including Iuka, Burnsville, Belmont. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tishomingo County by land and water
The Census records 20.2 square miles of water within Tishomingo County, or 4.5% of its total area. That share is close to Tishomingo County’s 4.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tishomingo County has 43.8 times the land area of nearby Iuka city (9.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alcorn County, Itawamba County, Prentiss County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.