Blog · October 14, 2026 · Mississippi
Reading the Walthall County Flood Zone Map for a parcel
The zone on FEMA's map affects insurance, building and resale near Sartinville.
Main page: Walthall County, MS GIS & Parcel Viewer (official map link, county facts and neighboring maps).
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Before you buy or build near Sartinville, pull up the Walthall County flood zone map: the zone on that map shapes insurance, building rules and resale. This Walthall County guide covers: finding the address on FEMA's map, reading the zone codes, and confirming the outline on the county map.
Getting started with the Walthall County flood zone map
If you're looking near Tylertown, the official source is FEMA's Flood Map Service Center: enter the street address, and choose the dynamic map. A tract near Tylertown without an address can still be found: zoom in from the nearest road and click the spot.
The viewer Walthall County publishes
The public parcel map for this area is the Walthall County ArcGIS parcel map, and it opens in a browser with no account. Without an address in hand, pan along the nearest road and click the parcel itself, and that holds around Tylertown too. For a home near Tylertown, copy the parcel ID before closing the panel; each clerk in the county will want it.
What the zone letters mean
For a home near Tylertown, A and V zones mark the Special Flood Hazard Area, land with a 1-percent chance of flooding in any year. With a lot near Tylertown, shaded Zone X is moderate risk, between the 1% and 0.2% annual chance floods; unshaded X is minimal risk.
Which office to call
If the acreage or value on a parcel near Tylertown looks off go to the County Tax Assessor, the office behind the parcel record. Zoning, permits and septic questions near Tylertown are for the local planning and health departments, and the answer depends on jurisdiction.
Where the recorded documents are
When the details count, pull the recorded deed from the Chancery Clerk; the viewer just points to it, which applies near Sartinville as much as anywhere. For a tract near Tylertown, have ready the document number from the tax record to skip a name search.
Using it on a phone
Most viewers work in a phone browser, useful out on a road near Sartinville, though signal can drop in rural spots. A printout of the tract near Tylertown keeps working without signal.
Land on the county line
Walthall County touches Washington Parish, LA, Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Marion County, and Pike County; every one of them runs a separate parcel map. Acreage along the edge near Sartinville can show up in two county records, so open the adjacent map as well. For a home near Sartinville, the Platbookmapper state page links every bordering county map across Mississippi.
Before you lean on the lines
For a parcel near Tylertown, listed acreage is an estimate; only a licensed surveyor establishes the real boundary on the ground. For a home near Tylertown, records update in batches, so a deed recorded last month may not show yet.
Places you'll see on the map
Tylertown holds the county offices, which is where the courthouse records live. Around 13,863 people live in the county (Census Bureau estimate, 2023) on about 404 square miles around Tylertown. The county dates to 1912, and some chains of title near Tylertown are long.
Low spots and local drainage
Small streams around Sartinville aren't always studied in detail, so ask neighbors about past flooding. Wetlands near Tylertown can limit building even outside a flood zone; the National Wetlands Inventory mapper shows mapped wetlands.
Questions to ask before you buy
For a tract near Sartinville, request whether the home has flooded before closing; getting a quote early avoids surprises.
Lining it up with the parcel map
FEMA's map shows zones but not ownership, so pair it with the Walthall County ArcGIS parcel map for the outline of the tract near Tylertown.
Money questions tied to the zone
If a building sits in a Special Flood Hazard Area and a federally regulated lender is involved, flood insurance is generally required where the community participates in the National Flood Insurance Program, whether the land is near Tylertown or elsewhere in the county. Remodeling a house in a zone near Sartinville usually means extra permit review; call the permitting office early.
Sections, lots and bearings
Mississippi is laid out under the Public Land Survey System, so deeds around Sartinville reference sections and townships. A standard section is about one square mile, roughly 640 acres, with 36 sections to a township, though real sections near Sartinville vary in size. Write down the legal description for the tract near Tylertown before you request a deed or survey.
Quick answers
Is AE a high-risk flood zone for land near Tylertown?
Closer to Tylertown, both are high-risk zones, but only AE has a base flood elevation; unnumbered A zones don't list one.
What is a base flood elevation around Sartinville?
Short answer: the base flood elevation is the water level expected in the 1% annual chance flood; surveyors near Tylertown use it often.
Is Zone X safe from flooding for land near Tylertown?
Short answer: Zone X near Tylertown means moderate (shaded) or minimal (unshaded) mapped risk; FEMA notes that a large share of claims come from these areas.
When is flood insurance required in Walthall County?
For land near Sartinville, it's typically required only for structures in high-risk zones with federally backed loans; outside those zones it's your call.
Does the parcel map work on a phone around Sartinville?
Around Sartinville, most viewers run in a mobile browser, though rural signal can drop.
Open the official Walthall County, MS 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.