THE MITCHELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Mitchell County has 911.1 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Mitchell County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Flat Tablelands and Valleys, Semiarid Edwards Plateau.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Mitchell County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks54.6%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys45.2%
- Semiarid Edwards Plateau0.2%
Edwards Plateau in Mitchell 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 ↗Finding your parcel within Mitchell County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mitchell County, including Lake Colorado City, Colorado City, Loraine. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mitchell County by land and water
The Census records 4.82 square miles of water within Mitchell County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Mitchell County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mitchell County has 117.4 times the land area of nearby Lake Colorado City CDP (7.76 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Borden County, Coke County, Fisher County, Howard County, Nolan County, Scurry County, Sterling County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

