THE KLEBERG COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies setting.
Kleberg County has 881.3 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Kleberg County: Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies, Laguna Madre Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes, Coastal Sand Plain.
Low coastal plains extend along the western Gulf, contrasting with more irregular inland country. Grassland was the principal natural cover, with river corridors and coastal features adding local variation.
Regional context: Western Gulf Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kleberg County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies51.5%
- Laguna Madre Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes26.4%
- Coastal Sand Plain22.1%
Finding your parcel within Kleberg County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kleberg County, including Corpus Christi, Kingsville, Ricardo. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kleberg County by land and water
The Census records 208.9 square miles of water within Kleberg County, or 19.2% of its total area. That share is close to Kleberg County’s 19.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kleberg County has 197.4 times the land area of nearby Ricardo CDP (4.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brooks County, Jim Wells County, Kenedy County, Nueces County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.