THE COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Collingsworth County has 918.4 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Collingsworth County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Red Prairie, Flat Tablelands and Valleys.
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
Collingsworth County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks62.7%
- Red Prairie36.5%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys0.8%
Central Great Plains in Collingsworth 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 Collingsworth County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Collingsworth County, including Quail, Samnorwood, Wellington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Collingsworth County by land and water
The Census records 0.88 square miles of water within Collingsworth County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Collingsworth County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Collingsworth County has 561.7 times the land area of nearby Samnorwood CDP (1.64 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Childress County, Donley County, Gray County, Hall County, Wheeler County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

