THE EASTLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Cross Timbers setting.
Eastland County has 926.5 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Eastland County: Western Cross Timbers, Carbonate Cross Timbers, Broken Red Plains.
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
Eastland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Cross Timbers98.8%
- Carbonate Cross Timbers0.7%
- Broken Red Plains0.6%
Central Great Plains in Eastland 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 Eastland County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Eastland County, including Ranger, Cisco, Eastland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Eastland County by land and water
The Census records 5.41 square miles of water within Eastland County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Eastland County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Eastland County has 904.8 times the land area of nearby Carbon town (1.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Callahan County, Comanche County, Erath County, Palo Pinto County, Shackelford County, Stephens County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

