THE GOLIAD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Post Oak Savanna setting.
Goliad County has 852 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Goliad County: Southern Post Oak Savanna, Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies, Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies, among others.
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Regional context: East Central Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Goliad County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Post Oak Savanna75.1%
- Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies19.4%
- Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies4.1%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces1.4%
Western Gulf Coastal Plain in Goliad 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 Goliad County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Goliad County, including Goliad. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Goliad County by land and water
The Census records 7.36 square miles of water within Goliad County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Goliad County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Goliad County has 544.4 times the land area of nearby Goliad city (1.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bee County, DeWitt County, Karnes County, Refugio County, Victoria County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.