THE BURLESON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Post Oak Savanna setting.
Burleson County has 659.1 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Burleson County: Southern Post Oak Savanna, Floodplains and Low Terraces, San Antonio Prairie.
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.
Regional context: East Central Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Burleson County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Post Oak Savanna71%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces15.2%
- San Antonio Prairie13.7%
Finding your parcel within Burleson County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Burleson County, including Clay, Caldwell, Beaver Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Burleson County by land and water
The Census records 17.8 square miles of water within Burleson County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Burleson County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Burleson County has 212.4 times the land area of nearby Beaver Creek CDP (3.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brazos County, Lee County, Milam County, Robertson County, Washington County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

