THE DALLAM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Dallam County has 1,503.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Dallam County: Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Rolling Sand Plains.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Dallam County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains63%
- Rolling Sand Plains37%
Finding your parcel within Dallam County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dallam County, including Dalhart, Texline. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dallam County by land and water
The Census records 1.78 square miles of water within Dallam County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Dallam County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dallam County has 314.3 times the land area of nearby Dalhart city (4.78 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hartley County, Moore County, Sherman County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

