THE WEAKLEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Plains setting.
Weakley County has 580.4 square miles of land in Tennessee. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Weakley 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
Weakley County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Plains56.3%
- Northern Hilly Gulf Coastal Plain43.7%
Southeastern Plains in Weakley 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 Weakley County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Weakley County, including Martin, McKenzie, Dresden. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Weakley County by land and water
The Census records 1.43 square miles of water within Weakley County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Weakley County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Weakley County has 97.7 times the land area of nearby Dresden town (5.94 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Gibson County, Henry County, Obion County within Tennessee. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

