THE ARCHER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Archer County has 903.3 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Archer County: Broken Red Plains, Western Cross Timbers.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Archer County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains98.2%
- Western Cross Timbers1.8%
Cross Timbers in Archer County
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Archer County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Archer County, including Scotland, Holliday, Windthorst. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Archer County by land and water
The Census records 22.3 square miles of water within Archer County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Archer County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Archer County has 383.6 times the land area of nearby Archer City city (2.36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baylor County, Clay County, Jack County, Throckmorton County, Wichita County, Wilbarger County, Young County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

