THE KARNES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Post Oak Savanna setting.
Karnes County has 747.8 square miles of land in Texas. The mapped landscape region in Karnes County is Southern Post Oak Savanna.
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.
Regional context: East Central Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Karnes County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Karnes County, including Kenedy, Karnes City, Runge. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Karnes County by land and water
The Census records 5.8 square miles of water within Karnes County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Karnes County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Karnes County has 322.2 times the land area of nearby Karnes City city (2.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atascosa County, Bee County, DeWitt County, Goliad County, Gonzales County, Live Oak County, Wilson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

