THE NACOGDOCHES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Nacogdoches County has 946.3 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Nacogdoches County: Tertiary Uplands, Southern Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Nacogdoches County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands68.3%
- Southern Tertiary Uplands28.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces3.3%
Finding your parcel within Nacogdoches County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nacogdoches County, including Nacogdoches, Appleby, Chireno. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nacogdoches County by land and water
The Census records 34.6 square miles of water within Nacogdoches County, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Nacogdoches County’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nacogdoches County has 34.3 times the land area of nearby Nacogdoches city (27.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Angelina County, Cherokee County, Rusk County, San Augustine County, Shelby County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.