THE DUVAL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub setting.
Duval County has 1,793.5 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Duval County: Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub, Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies, Coastal Sand Plain.
Rolling to dissected plains support the thorny brush landscape associated with South Texas. Mesquite and other shrubs are prominent within this warm transition between grassland and desert regions.
Regional context: Southern Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Duval County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub85.8%
- Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies12.1%
- Coastal Sand Plain2.1%
Western Gulf Coastal Plain in Duval County
Low coastal plains extend along the western Gulf, contrasting with more irregular inland country. Grassland was the principal natural cover, with river corridors and coastal features adding local variation.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Duval County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Duval County, including Freer, San Diego, Benavides. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Duval County by land and water
The Census records 2.12 square miles of water within Duval County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Duval County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Duval County has 1,012.7 times the land area of nearby Benavides city (1.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brooks County, Jim Hogg County, Jim Wells County, La Salle County, Live Oak County, McMullen County, Webb County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

