THE YAZOO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Holocene Meander Belts setting.
Yazoo County has 922.3 square miles of land in Mississippi. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Yazoo County: Northern Holocene Meander Belts, Loess Plains, Bluff Hills, among others.
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.
Regional context: Mississippi Alluvial Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Yazoo County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Holocene Meander Belts34.5%
- Loess Plains32.3%
- Bluff Hills30.4%
- Northern Backswamps2.8%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Yazoo County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Yazoo County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Yazoo County, including Yazoo City, Benton, Bentonia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Yazoo County by land and water
The Census records 11.8 square miles of water within Yazoo County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Yazoo County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Yazoo County has 91.5 times the land area of nearby Yazoo City city (10.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Attala County, Hinds County, Holmes County, Humphreys County, Issaquena County, Madison County, Sharkey County, Warren County within Mississippi. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

