THE HEMPHILL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron Breaks setting.
Hemphill County has 906.3 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hemphill County: Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Red Prairie, Llano Estacado.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hemphill County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks95.5%
- Red Prairie4.4%
- Llano Estacado0.1%
Central Great Plains in Hemphill 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 ↗High Plains in Hemphill County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hemphill County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hemphill County, including Canadian, Glazier. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hemphill County by land and water
The Census records 5.87 square miles of water within Hemphill County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Hemphill County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hemphill County has 697.7 times the land area of nearby Canadian city (1.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gray County, Lipscomb County, Roberts County, Wheeler County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

