THE LEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Post Oak Savanna setting.
Lee County has 629.1 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Lee County: Southern Post Oak Savanna, San Antonio Prairie.
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Regional context: East Central Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Post Oak Savanna86.1%
- San Antonio Prairie13.9%
Finding your parcel within Lee County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lee County, including Giddings, Lexington, Dime Box. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lee County by land and water
The Census records 5.05 square miles of water within Lee County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Lee County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lee County has 440.2 times the land area of nearby Lexington town (1.43 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bastrop County, Burleson County, Fayette County, Milam County, Washington County, Williamson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

