THE COCHRAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Llano Estacado setting.
Cochran County has 775.1 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cochran County: Llano Estacado, Shinnery Sands.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cochran County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Llano Estacado82.1%
- Shinnery Sands17.9%
Finding your parcel within Cochran County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cochran County, including Morton, Whiteface, Bledsoe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cochran County by land and water
The Census records 0.09 square miles of water within Cochran County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Cochran County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cochran County has 515 times the land area of nearby Morton city (1.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bailey County, Hockley County, Lamb County, Terry County, Yoakum County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

