THE CASS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Cass County has 936.9 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Cass County: Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces, Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces, 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
Cass County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands94.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3.8%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces1.5%
- Northern Post Oak Savanna0.3%
East Central Texas Plains in Cass 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 Cass County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cass County, including Atlanta, Douglassville, Queen City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cass County by land and water
The Census records 23.4 square miles of water within Cass County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Cass County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cass County has 265.4 times the land area of nearby Linden city (3.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bowie County, Marion County, Morris County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

