THE GREGG COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Gregg County has 273.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Gregg County: Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Gregg County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands85.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces14.2%
Finding your parcel within Gregg County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gregg County, including Longview, Kilgore, Lake Cherokee. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gregg County by land and water
The Census records 2.4 square miles of water within Gregg County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Gregg County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gregg County has 30.1 times the land area of nearby White Oak city (9.09 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Harrison County, Rusk County, Smith County, Upshur County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

