THE COOKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Grand Prairie setting.
Cooke County has 874.8 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cooke County: Grand Prairie, Eastern Cross Timbers, Western Cross Timbers.
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.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cooke County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Grand Prairie59.1%
- Eastern Cross Timbers28.8%
- Western Cross Timbers12.1%
Finding your parcel within Cooke County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cooke County, including Gainesville, Sanger, Pilot Point. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cooke County by land and water
The Census records 23.7 square miles of water within Cooke County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Cooke County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cooke County has 536.4 times the land area of nearby Lindsay city (1.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Denton County, Grayson County, Montague County, Wise County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

