THE JIM HOGG COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Sand Plain setting.
Jim Hogg County has 1,136.2 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jim Hogg County: Coastal Sand Plain, Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub.
Low coastal plains extend along the western Gulf, contrasting with more irregular inland country. Grassland was the principal natural cover, with river corridors and coastal features adding local variation.
Regional context: Western Gulf Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Jim Hogg County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Sand Plain52.9%
- Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub47.1%
Southern Texas Plains in Jim Hogg County
Rolling to dissected plains support the thorny brush landscape associated with South Texas. Mesquite and other shrubs are prominent within this warm transition between grassland and desert regions.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Jim Hogg County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jim Hogg County, including Hebbronville, Las Lomitas, Thompsonville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jim Hogg County by land and water
The Census records 0.04 square miles of water within Jim Hogg County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Jim Hogg County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jim Hogg County has 292.2 times the land area of nearby Thompsonville CDP (3.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brooks County, Duval County, Starr County, Webb County, Zapata County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

