THE ARANSAS PASS LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mid-Coast Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes setting.
Aransas Pass city has 13.2 square miles of land in Aransas County, Nueces County, San Patricio County. Its Census boundary intersects Mid-Coast Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, within Western Gulf Coastal Plain.
Low coastal plains extend along the western Gulf, contrasting with more irregular inland country. Grassland was the principal natural cover, with river corridors and coastal features adding local variation.
Regional context: Western Gulf Coastal Plain ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Mid-Coast Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
One place name. 3 county geographies.
Aransas Pass intersects 3 county geographies: Aransas County, Nueces County, San Patricio County. A Aransas Pass mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Aransas Pass by land and water
The Census records 39.8 square miles of water within Aransas Pass, or 75.1% of its total area. It is 72.4 percentage points higher than the 2.7% recorded for Texas. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Aransas Pass city has 167.1 times the land area of nearby Falman CDP (0.08 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.