Blog · October 14, 2026 · Arkansas
Greene County Flood Zone Map, Arkansas: a practical guide
The zone on FEMA's map affects insurance, building and resale near Oak Grove Heights.
Main page: Greene County, AR GIS & Parcel Viewer (official map link, county facts and neighboring maps).
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Weighing a property around Fontaine? Checking the Greene County flood zone map reveals whether it sits in a FEMA flood zone, and no account is needed. What this Greene County guide covers: the free FEMA tools, what each zone label means, lender insurance rules and what a LOMA is.
Getting started with the Greene County flood zone map
For parcel-by-parcel detail, try the National Flood Hazard Layer viewer, which draws the zones over aerial imagery, for land near Oak Grove Heights included. A tract near Beech Grove without an address can still be found: search the nearest road then click the parcel area.
The viewer Greene County publishes
Your first stop is the Greene County ArcGIS parcel map; it covers each assessed parcel in the county, Fontaine included. If you're looking near Cotton Belt, enter a street address, an owner's name or a parcel number, and the viewer zooms to the match. On ground around Walcott, write down the parcel ID before closing the panel; every office in the county asks for it first.
Where the recorded documents are
For property near Paragould, the map is an index, not the title: deeds, subdivision plats and easements for parcels in the county are kept by the Circuit Clerk. Long-held tracts around Beech Grove may go back through a long string of deeds, so a title company can sort it out if money is changing hands.
Reading A, AE and X
If the land is near Lafe, A and V zones are Special Flood Hazard Areas, meaning a 1% or greater chance of flooding each year. For land near Fontaine, a shaded X area marks moderate flood hazard, between the 1% and 0.2% annual chance floods; plain X, or C on older maps, is minimal risk.
A word on accuracy
For property near Oak Grove Heights, acreage on the record is a tax-roll number; only a licensed surveyor can set the real lines on the ground. For a parcel near Delaplaine, owner names and values update on a schedule, so a deed recorded last month can take weeks to appear.
What to request from a seller
For acreage around Paragould, request for any Elevation Certificate before closing; an insurance quote early avoids surprises.
Getting your bearings
Paragould is the county seat, home to the main records offices. Smaller places on the map include Marmaduke, Delaplaine, Lafe, and Oak Grove Heights, where town lots give way to larger tracts. Roughly 46,743 people live in Greene County (Census estimate, 2023) spread over roughly 577 square miles. The county was organized in 1833, and some chains of title near Cotton Belt are long.
How land is described here
Arkansas follows the Public Land Survey System, so rural legal descriptions near Walcott cite section, township and range. Each section is nominally a mile square, about 640 acres, and a township holds 36 of them, though sections near Oak Grove Heights can be irregular. Write down the legal description for the tract near Cotton Belt when you talk to a surveyor.
Lining it up with the parcel map
FEMA doesn't draw property lines, so pair it with the Greene County ArcGIS parcel map for the outline of the tract near Oak Grove Heights.
On site with the map
The parcel map usually runs in a mobile browser, handy when you're parked on a road near Paragould, so load it before you lose signal. A printout of the tract near Delaplaine keeps working without signal.
Land on the county line
The county borders Clay County, Craighead County, Lawrence County, Randolph County, and Dunklin County, MO; every one of them runs a separate parcel map, at least around Beech Grove. Acreage along the edge near Paragould may be split in two county records, so look at the neighboring map too. Near Marmaduke, our state page lists each neighboring county map for Arkansas.
Lenders and permits
For a tract near Beech Grove, get the Elevation Certificate if one exists: it records the building's elevation against the base flood. Building or adding on near Beech Grove in a mapped zone can trigger elevation rules; check with the county or town building office before you plan.
Low spots and local drainage
Small streams around Beech Grove aren't always studied in detail, so look for water marks and debris lines. Wetlands near Cotton Belt can limit building even outside a flood zone; the National Wetlands Inventory mapper shows mapped wetlands.
Questions about the Greene County flood zone map
Can a property in Zone X near Walcott flood?
Zone X near Beech Grove means moderate (shaded) or minimal (unshaded) mapped risk; many owners near Cotton Belt buy coverage anyway.
What is a LOMA in Greene County?
Good question; FEMA's LOMA process is the usual route when a building near Oak Grove Heights sits above the base flood elevation; a surveyor's elevation data supports it.
Why does the BFE matter near Beech Grove?
With a lot near Fontaine, the base flood elevation is the water level expected in the 1% annual chance flood; local rules may require building above it.
When is flood insurance required near Lafe?
For a tract near Delaplaine, it's typically required only for structures in high-risk zones with federally backed loans, in communities that take part in the NFIP.
Which office handles records for land near Cotton Belt?
On ground around Marmaduke, values are the County Assessor's job; recorded documents belong to the Circuit Clerk.
Open the official Greene County, AR parcel map See it in the Platbookmapper directory
Not a survey. County GIS and tax parcel maps are assessment and planning layers. They are not a substitute for a recorded plat, deed, or licensed survey, especially for fences, setbacks, or boundary disputes.