THE BURNET COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Balcones Canyonlands setting.
Burnet County has 994.8 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Burnet County: Balcones Canyonlands, Edwards Plateau Woodland, Limestone Cut Plain, among others.
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
Burnet County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Balcones Canyonlands33.3%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland28.4%
- Limestone Cut Plain26.1%
- Llano Uplift12.2%
Cross Timbers in Burnet 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 Burnet County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Burnet County, including Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, Burnet. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Burnet County by land and water
The Census records 26.9 square miles of water within Burnet County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Burnet County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Burnet County has 94.8 times the land area of nearby Burnet city (10.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bell County, Blanco County, Lampasas County, Llano County, San Saba County, Travis County, Williamson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

