THE COKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Coke County has 911.6 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Coke County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Semiarid Edwards Plateau, 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
Coke County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks56.5%
- Semiarid Edwards Plateau43%
- Red Prairie0.5%
Edwards Plateau in Coke County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Central Great Plains in Coke 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 Coke County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coke County, including Bronte, Robert Lee, Blackwell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coke County by land and water
The Census records 16.3 square miles of water within Coke County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Coke County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coke County has 800.4 times the land area of nearby Robert Lee city (1.14 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Mitchell County, Nolan County, Runnels County, Sterling County, Tom Green County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

