THE MATAGORDA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies setting.
Matagorda County has 1,093.1 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Matagorda County: Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies, Floodplains and Low Terraces, Mid-Coast Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes.
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.
Regional context: Western Gulf Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Matagorda County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies57.9%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces23.5%
- Mid-Coast Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes18.6%
Finding your parcel within Matagorda County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Matagorda County, including Bay City, Wadsworth, Sargent. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Matagorda County by land and water
The Census records 519.4 square miles of water within Matagorda County, or 32.2% of its total area. That share is close to Matagorda County’s 32.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Matagorda County has 592.8 times the land area of nearby Matagorda CDP (1.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brazoria County, Calhoun County, Jackson County, Wharton County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.