The boundaries of Dunklin County Soil and Water Conservation District Include all 8 townships in the county.  The total land area is 543 square miles or 347,520 acres.  The county is situated in the extreme southeast corner of Missouri.  It is bordered on the south by Arkansas, on the west by Arkansas and Butler County, Missouri and on the north by Stoddard County and on the east by Pemiscot and New Madrid Counties.

     Approximately 333,620 acres of the county are nearly level, made up by Recently alluvium deposits in the Mississippi, Ohio and St. Francis Rivers.  The remaining 13,900 acres area knows as Crowley’s Ridge.  Elevations vary from about 230 feet in the southern part of the county to 500 feet on Crowley’s Ridge.

The purposes of the Soil and Water Conservation District of Dunklin County are:

1. To develop and carry out a program that will help bring about the conservation and development of the soils, water resources, recreation facilities and wildlife resources to Dunklin County.
2. Provides the Supervisors with opportunities to assess and evaluate the resources at their disposal, and to determine what they can do within the county to further the purposes of the District.