THE HOUSTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Houston County has 1,231 square miles of land in Texas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Houston County: Tertiary Uplands, Southern Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Houston County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands45.9%
- Southern Tertiary Uplands40.9%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces7.2%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna4.4%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces1.6%
East Central Texas Plains in Houston County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Houston County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Houston County, including Crockett, Grapeland, Lovelady. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Houston County by land and water
The Census records 5.58 square miles of water within Houston County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Houston County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Houston County has 139.1 times the land area of nearby Crockett city (8.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anderson County, Angelina County, Cherokee County, Leon County, Madison County, Trinity County, Walker County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

