THE COTTLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Cottle County has 900.6 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cottle County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Flat Tablelands and Valleys, 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
Cottle County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks54.4%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys43.3%
- Red Prairie2.2%
Central Great Plains in Cottle 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 Cottle County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cottle County, including Paducah. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cottle County by land and water
The Census records 1.05 square miles of water within Cottle County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Cottle County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cottle County has 598 times the land area of nearby Paducah town (1.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Childress County, Dickens County, Foard County, Hall County, Hardeman County, King County, Motley County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

