THE LIVE OAK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub setting.
Live Oak County has 1,039.7 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Live Oak County: Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub, Southern Post Oak Savanna, Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies.
Rolling to dissected plains support the thorny brush landscape associated with South Texas. Mesquite and other shrubs are prominent within this warm transition between grassland and desert regions.
Regional context: Southern Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Live Oak County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub67.2%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna30.8%
- Southern Subhumid Gulf Coastal Prairies2%
East Central Texas Plains in Live Oak 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 ↗Western Gulf Coastal Plain in Live Oak County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Live Oak County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Live Oak County, including George West, Three Rivers. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Live Oak County by land and water
The Census records 39.2 square miles of water within Live Oak County, or 3.6% of its total area. That share is close to Live Oak County’s 3.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Live Oak County has 536.5 times the land area of nearby George West city (1.94 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atascosa County, Bee County, Duval County, Jim Wells County, Karnes County, McMullen County, San Patricio County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

