THE LIMESTONE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Blackland Prairie setting.
Limestone County has 905.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Limestone County: Northern Blackland Prairie, Southern Post Oak Savanna.
Fine-textured clay soils distinguish the Blackland Prairie landscape from surrounding Texas regions. Its historic prairie setting now includes a mixture of agricultural areas and expanding developed corridors.
Regional context: Texas Blackland Prairies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Limestone County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Blackland Prairie64.6%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna35.4%
East Central Texas Plains in Limestone County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Limestone County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Limestone County, including Mexia, Groesbeck, Tehuacana. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Limestone County by land and water
The Census records 27.7 square miles of water within Limestone County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Limestone County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Limestone County has 208.5 times the land area of nearby Groesbeck city (4.34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Falls County, Freestone County, Hill County, Leon County, McLennan County, Navarro County, Robertson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

