THE WILKINSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Rolling Plains setting.
Wilkinson County has 678 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Wilkinson County: Southern Rolling Plains, Bluff Hills, Southern Backswamps, 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
Wilkinson County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Rolling Plains66.1%
- Bluff Hills19.3%
- Southern Backswamps8.2%
- Southern Holocene Meander Belts6.4%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wilkinson County, including Centreville, Crosby, Woodville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wilkinson County by land and water
The Census records 9.75 square miles of water within Wilkinson County, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Wilkinson County’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wilkinson County has 654.5 times the land area of nearby Woodville town (1.04 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Amite County, Franklin County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

