THE MOTLEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat Tablelands and Valleys setting.
Motley County has 989.6 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Motley County: Flat Tablelands and Valleys, Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Llano Estacado.
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
Motley County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys62.8%
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks36.2%
- Llano Estacado1%
High Plains in Motley County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Motley County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Motley County, including Matador, Roaring Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Motley County by land and water
The Census records 0.25 square miles of water within Motley County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Motley County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Motley County has 758.9 times the land area of nearby Matador town (1.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Briscoe County, Cottle County, Crosby County, Dickens County, Floyd County, Hall County, King County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

