THE KING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
King County has 910.9 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across King County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Flat Tablelands and Valleys.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
King County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks79.4%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys20.5%
Finding your parcel within King County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with King County, including Guthrie. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
King County by land and water
The Census records 2.47 square miles of water within King County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to King County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, King County has 512.9 times the land area of nearby Guthrie CDP (1.78 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cottle County, Dickens County, Foard County, Haskell County, Kent County, Knox County, Motley County, Stonewall County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

