THE BANDERA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Balcones Canyonlands setting.
Bandera County has 791 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Bandera County: Balcones Canyonlands, Edwards Plateau Woodland.
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Regional context: Edwards Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bandera County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Balcones Canyonlands98.1%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland1.9%
Finding your parcel within Bandera County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bandera County, including Lakehills, Lake Medina Shores, Bandera. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bandera County by land and water
The Census records 6.68 square miles of water within Bandera County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Bandera County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bandera County has 694.5 times the land area of nearby Bandera city (1.14 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bexar County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Medina County, Real County, Uvalde County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

