THE GILLESPIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Edwards Plateau Woodland setting.
Gillespie County has 1,058.2 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Gillespie County: Edwards Plateau Woodland, Llano Uplift, Balcones Canyonlands.
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Regional context: Edwards Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Gillespie County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Edwards Plateau Woodland86.9%
- Llano Uplift8%
- Balcones Canyonlands5.1%
Finding your parcel within Gillespie County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gillespie County, including Harper, Stonewall, Fredericksburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gillespie County by land and water
The Census records 3.47 square miles of water within Gillespie County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Gillespie County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gillespie County has 110.7 times the land area of nearby Fredericksburg city (9.56 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blanco County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Kimble County, Llano County, Mason County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

