THE JONES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Red Prairie setting.
Jones County has 928.6 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Jones County: Red Prairie, Limestone Plains.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Jones County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Red Prairie99.7%
- Limestone Plains0.3%
Finding your parcel within Jones County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jones County, including Abilene, Stamford, Hamlin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jones County by land and water
The Census records 8.53 square miles of water within Jones County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Jones County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jones County has 336.5 times the land area of nearby Anson city (2.76 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Callahan County, Fisher County, Haskell County, Nolan County, Shackelford County, Stonewall County, Taylor County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

