THE CLAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Clay County has 1,088.8 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Clay County: Broken Red Plains, Western Cross Timbers.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Clay County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains94%
- Western Cross Timbers6%
Cross Timbers in Clay 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 Clay County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Clay County, including Wichita Falls, Henrietta, Windthorst. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Clay County by land and water
The Census records 28 square miles of water within Clay County, or 2.5% of its total area. That share is close to Clay County’s 2.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clay County has 213.2 times the land area of nearby Henrietta city (5.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archer County, Jack County, Montague County, Wichita County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

