THE MIDLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arid Llano Estacado setting.
Midland County has 900.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Midland County: Arid Llano Estacado, 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
Midland County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arid Llano Estacado75%
- Llano Estacado25%
Finding your parcel within Midland County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Midland County, including Midland, Odessa. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Midland County by land and water
The Census records 1.64 square miles of water within Midland County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Midland County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Midland County has 11.8 times the land area of nearby Midland city (76.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Andrews County, Ector County, Glasscock County, Martin County, Reagan County, Upton County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

