THE MONTAGUE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Cross Timbers setting.
Montague County has 930.9 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Montague County: Western Cross Timbers, Broken Red Plains, Grand Prairie.
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Montague County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Cross Timbers64.2%
- Broken Red Plains32.1%
- Grand Prairie3.8%
Central Great Plains in Montague County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Montague County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montague County, including Bowie, Nocona Hills, Sunset. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montague County by land and water
The Census records 7.37 square miles of water within Montague County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Montague County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montague County has 729.6 times the land area of nearby Montague CDP (1.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Cooke County, Jack County, Wise County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

