THE ANDREWS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arid Llano Estacado setting.
Andrews County has 1,500.7 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Andrews County: Arid Llano Estacado, Shinnery Sands.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Andrews County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arid Llano Estacado55.6%
- Shinnery Sands44.4%
Finding your parcel within Andrews County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Andrews County, including Andrews, McKinney Acres. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Andrews County by land and water
The Census records 0.41 square miles of water within Andrews County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Andrews County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Andrews County has 215.9 times the land area of nearby Andrews city (6.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ector County, Gaines County, Martin County, Midland County, Winkler County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

