THE STODDARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
St. Francis Lowlands setting.
Stoddard County has 823.1 square miles of land in Missouri. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Stoddard County: St. Francis Lowlands, Bluff Hills, Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains.
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
Stoddard County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- St. Francis Lowlands44.4%
- Bluff Hills37.5%
- Western Lowlands Pleistocene Valley Trains18%
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains in Stoddard 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 Stoddard County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stoddard County, including Liberty, Pike, Duck Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stoddard County by land and water
The Census records 5.8 square miles of water within Stoddard County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Stoddard County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stoddard County has 7.6 times the land area of nearby Castor township (108.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bollinger County, Butler County, Cape Girardeau County, Dunklin County, New Madrid County, Scott County, Wayne County within Missouri. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

