THE MARTIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Llano Estacado setting.
Martin County has 915 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Martin County: Llano Estacado, Arid Llano Estacado.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Martin County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Llano Estacado74%
- Arid Llano Estacado26%
Finding your parcel within Martin County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Martin County, including Midland, Stanton, Ackerly. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Martin County by land and water
The Census records 0.75 square miles of water within Martin County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Martin County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Martin County has 460 times the land area of nearby Stanton city (1.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Andrews County, Borden County, Dawson County, Gaines County, Glasscock County, Howard County, Midland County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

