THE EL PASO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chihuahuan Basins and Playas setting.
El Paso County has 1,013.5 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across El Paso County: Chihuahuan Basins and Playas, Rio Grande Floodplain, Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands, among others.
Desert basins and mountain ranges extend across this region, with the Rio Grande and Pecos as important drainage corridors. Arid shrubland and grassland contrast with wooded higher elevations.
Regional context: Chihuahuan Deserts ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
El Paso County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chihuahuan Basins and Playas70%
- Rio Grande Floodplain13.8%
- Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands13%
- Low Mountains and Bajadas3.2%
Finding your parcel within El Paso County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with El Paso County, including El Paso, Socorro, Fort Bliss. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
El Paso County by land and water
The Census records 1.76 square miles of water within El Paso County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to El Paso County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, El Paso County has 276.5 times the land area of nearby Homestead Meadows South CDP (3.67 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hudspeth County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.