THE KNOX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Knox County has 850.6 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Knox County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Red Prairie, Flat Tablelands and Valleys, among others.
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
Knox County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks58.7%
- Red Prairie34.1%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys7%
- Limestone Plains0.1%
Central Great Plains in Knox County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Knox County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Knox County, including Goree, Munday, Benjamin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Knox County by land and water
The Census records 4.86 square miles of water within Knox County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Knox County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Knox County has 809.3 times the land area of nearby Benjamin city (1.05 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baylor County, Foard County, Haskell County, King County, Stonewall County, Throckmorton County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

