THE LEON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Post Oak Savanna setting.
Leon County has 1,073.2 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Leon County: Southern Post Oak Savanna, Floodplains and Low Terraces, 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
Leon County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Post Oak Savanna90.1%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces7.3%
- San Antonio Prairie2.7%
Finding your parcel within Leon County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Leon County, including Hilltop Lakes, Buffalo, Leona. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Leon County by land and water
The Census records 7.46 square miles of water within Leon County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Leon County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Leon County has 600.2 times the land area of nearby Centerville city (1.79 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anderson County, Brazos County, Freestone County, Houston County, Limestone County, Madison County, Robertson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

