THE WARREN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bluff Hills setting.
Warren County has 588.5 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Warren County: Bluff Hills, Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Loess Plains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Valley Loess Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Warren County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bluff Hills47.7%
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts40.2%
- Loess Plains9.1%
- Northern Backswamps2.9%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Warren County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Warren County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Warren County, including Vicksburg, Beechwood, Bovina. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Warren County by land and water
The Census records 30 square miles of water within Warren County, or 4.9% of its total area. That share is close to Warren County’s 4.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Warren County has 93.9 times the land area of nearby Beechwood CDP (6.27 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Claiborne County, Hinds County, Issaquena County, Yazoo County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

