THE WEBSTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Webster County has 421.2 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Webster County: Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain, Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins.
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
Webster County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain93.1%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins6.9%
Finding your parcel within Webster County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Webster County, including Mantee, Eupora, Mathiston. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Webster County by land and water
The Census records 2.07 square miles of water within Webster County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Webster County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Webster County has 432.4 times the land area of nearby Walthall village (0.97 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calhoun County, Chickasaw County, Choctaw County, Clay County, Grenada County, Montgomery County, Oktibbeha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

