THE CHILDRESS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat Tablelands and Valleys setting.
Childress County has 696.5 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Childress County: Flat Tablelands and Valleys, Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Red Prairie.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Childress County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys41.8%
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks29.2%
- Red Prairie29.1%
Central Great Plains in Childress County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Childress County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Childress County, including Childress. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Childress County by land and water
The Census records 17.2 square miles of water within Childress County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Childress County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Childress County has 84.3 times the land area of nearby Childress city (8.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Collingsworth County, Cottle County, Hall County, Hardeman County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

