THE KENDALL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Balcones Canyonlands setting.
Kendall County has 662.5 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Kendall County: Balcones Canyonlands, Edwards Plateau Woodland.
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Regional context: Edwards Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kendall County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Balcones Canyonlands97.9%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland2.1%
Finding your parcel within Kendall County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kendall County, including Fair Oaks Ranch, Boerne, Comfort. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kendall County by land and water
The Census records 0.58 square miles of water within Kendall County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Kendall County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kendall County has 56.4 times the land area of nearby Boerne city (11.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bandera County, Bexar County, Blanco County, Comal County, Gillespie County, Kerr County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

