THE HENDRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southwestern Florida Flatwoods setting.
Hendry County has 1,156 square miles of land in Florida. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hendry County: Southwestern Florida Flatwoods, Everglades, Big Cypress.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hendry County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southwestern Florida Flatwoods68.1%
- Everglades20.6%
- Big Cypress11.3%
Southern Florida Coastal Plain in Hendry County
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hendry County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hendry County, including Montura, Pioneer, Fort Denaud. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hendry County by land and water
The Census records 33.4 square miles of water within Hendry County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Hendry County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hendry County has 51.8 times the land area of nearby Montura CDP (22.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Broward County, Charlotte County, Collier County, Glades County, Lee County, Martin County, Okeechobee County, Palm Beach County within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

