THE MEDINA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains setting.
Medina County has 1,325.4 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Medina County: Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains, Balcones Canyonlands, Northern Blackland Prairie, among others.
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
Medina County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains69.9%
- Balcones Canyonlands22.7%
- Northern Blackland Prairie6%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna1.4%
Edwards Plateau in Medina County
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Read the regional source ↗Texas Blackland Prairies in Medina County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Medina County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Medina County, including San Antonio, Hondo, Yancey. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Medina County by land and water
The Census records 9.17 square miles of water within Medina County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Medina County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Medina County has 131.9 times the land area of nearby Hondo city (10 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atascosa County, Bandera County, Bexar County, Frio County, Uvalde County, Zavala County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

