THE KERR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Balcones Canyonlands setting.
Kerr County has 1,103.3 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Kerr 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
Kerr County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Balcones Canyonlands51.4%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland48.6%
Finding your parcel within Kerr County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kerr County, including Kerrville, Center Point, Ingram. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kerr County by land and water
The Census records 3.95 square miles of water within Kerr County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Kerr County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kerr County has 752.1 times the land area of nearby Ingram city (1.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bandera County, Edwards County, Gillespie County, Kendall County, Kimble County, Real County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

