THE HOCKLEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Llano Estacado setting.
Hockley County has 908.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hockley County: Llano Estacado, Shinnery Sands.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hockley County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Llano Estacado99.7%
- Shinnery Sands0.3%
Finding your parcel within Hockley County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hockley County, including Levelland, Sundown, Whitharral. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hockley County by land and water
The Census records 0.17 square miles of water within Hockley County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Hockley County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hockley County has 89 times the land area of nearby Levelland city (10.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bailey County, Cochran County, Hale County, Lamb County, Lubbock County, Lynn County, Terry County, Yoakum County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

