THE CRYSTAL CITY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub setting.
Crystal City city has 3.67 square miles of land in Zavala County. Its Census reference point is in Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub, within Southern Texas Plains.
Rolling to dissected plains support the thorny brush landscape associated with South Texas. Mesquite and other shrubs are prominent within this warm transition between grassland and desert regions.
Regional context: Southern Texas Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Crystal City and Zavala County
Crystal City is associated with Zavala County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Crystal City by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Crystal City, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 0.1 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for Zavala County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crystal City city has 16 times the land area of nearby Amaya CDP (0.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

