THE CONCHO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Limestone Plains setting.
Concho County has 983.8 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Concho County: Limestone Plains, Edwards Plateau Woodland, Red Prairie.
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
Concho County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Limestone Plains56.5%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland34.3%
- Red Prairie9.2%
Edwards Plateau in Concho 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 ↗Finding your parcel within Concho County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Concho County, including Eden, Paint Rock. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Concho County by land and water
The Census records 9.94 square miles of water within Concho County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Concho County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Concho County has 413.5 times the land area of nearby Eden city (2.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coleman County, McCulloch County, Menard County, Runnels County, Schleicher County, Tom Green County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

