THE COLEMAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Limestone Plains setting.
Coleman County has 1,263 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Coleman County: Limestone 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
Coleman County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Limestone Plains96.9%
- Western Cross Timbers3.1%
Cross Timbers in Coleman 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 Coleman County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coleman County, including Coleman, Santa Anna, Novice. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coleman County by land and water
The Census records 18.5 square miles of water within Coleman County, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Coleman County’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coleman County has 205.6 times the land area of nearby Coleman city (6.14 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Callahan County, Concho County, McCulloch County, Runnels County, Taylor County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

