THE BOWIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Bowie County has 884.9 square miles of land in Texas. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Bowie County: Tertiary Uplands, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, Red River Bottomlands, among others.
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bowie County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands56.9%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces17%
- Red River Bottomlands12.3%
- Northern Post Oak Savanna7.1%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces6%
East Central Texas Plains in Bowie County
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Bowie County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bowie County, including Texarkana, Nash, New Boston. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bowie County by land and water
The Census records 38 square miles of water within Bowie County, or 4.1% of its total area. That share is close to Bowie County’s 4.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bowie County has 208.5 times the land area of nearby New Boston city (4.24 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cass County, Morris County, Red River County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.