THE HAYWOOD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Haywood County has 533.1 square miles of land in Tennessee. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Haywood County: Loess Plains, Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain.
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
Haywood County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains97.6%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain2.4%
Southeastern Plains in Haywood County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Haywood County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Haywood County, including Brownsville, Dancyville, Stanton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Haywood County by land and water
The Census records 0.96 square miles of water within Haywood County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Haywood County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Haywood County has 54.1 times the land area of nearby Brownsville city (9.86 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crockett County, Fayette County, Hardeman County, Lauderdale County, Madison County, Tipton County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

