Scott County

The Land in Scott County

Scott County bridges the delta and the higher ground to the north, sitting where the flat Bootheel farmland begins its transition toward the Ozark escarpment near the Mississippi River. Most of the county is rich alluvial cropland — soybeans, corn, wheat, and cotton — worked in level fields among drainage ditches. Toward the western and northern edges the ground firms and rolls slightly, adding variety to an otherwise flat landscape. For farm buyers, Scott offers productive delta soil with convenient access. Recreation runs to waterfowl in the flooded lowlands and doves along the field edges, with pockets of timber near the river and higher ground holding some deer and turkey. It is farmland with a transitional edge.