THE DEL RIO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub setting.
Del Rio city has 20.5 square miles of land in Val Verde 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
Del Rio and Val Verde County
Del Rio is associated with Val Verde 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.
Del Rio by land and water
The Census records 0.07 square miles of water within Del Rio, or 0.3% of its total area. It is 2.4 percentage points lower than the 2.7% recorded for Val Verde County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Del Rio city has 25 times the land area of nearby Val Verde Park CDP (0.82 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

