THE BOLLINGER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Ozark Border setting.
Bollinger County has 617.9 square miles of land in Missouri. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Bollinger County: Eastern Ozark Border, Black River Hills Border, St. Francis Lowlands, among others.
Wooded uplands over limestone, dolomite and sandstone characterize the Ozarks. Springs, caves and spring-fed streams are widespread regional features within a landscape of uneven plateaus and valleys.
Regional context: Ozark Highlands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bollinger County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Ozark Border72.9%
- Black River Hills Border13%
- St. Francis Lowlands7%
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains3.7%
- River Hills2.1%
Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Bollinger 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 ↗Interior River Valleys and Hills in Bollinger County
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Bollinger County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bollinger County, including Marble Hill, Sedgewickville, Zalma. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bollinger County by land and water
The Census records 3.29 square miles of water within Bollinger County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Bollinger County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bollinger County has 10,653.5 times the land area of nearby Glen Allen town (0.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cape Girardeau County, Madison County, Perry County, Stoddard County, Wayne County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

