THE HOOD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Grand Prairie setting.
Hood County has 420.7 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hood County: Grand Prairie, Limestone Cut Plain, Western Cross Timbers.
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hood County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Grand Prairie82.9%
- Limestone Cut Plain8.9%
- Western Cross Timbers8.1%
Finding your parcel within Hood County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hood County, including Granbury, Cresson, Pecan Plantation. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hood County by land and water
The Census records 16.1 square miles of water within Hood County, or 3.7% of its total area. That share is close to Hood County’s 3.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hood County has 24.4 times the land area of nearby Granbury city (17.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Erath County, Johnson County, Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Somervell County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

