THE WINSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain setting.
Winston County has 607.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Winston 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
Winston County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain88.3%
- Flatwoods/Blackland Prairie Margins11.7%
Finding your parcel within Winston County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Winston County, including Louisville, Noxapater. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Winston County by land and water
The Census records 2.84 square miles of water within Winston County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Winston County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Winston County has 40.2 times the land area of nearby Louisville city (15.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Attala County, Choctaw County, Kemper County, Leake County, Neshoba County, Noxubee County, Oktibbeha County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

