THE NAVARRO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Blackland Prairie setting.
Navarro County has 1,009.7 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Navarro County: Northern Blackland Prairie, Southern Post Oak Savanna, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
Fine-textured clay soils distinguish the Blackland Prairie landscape from surrounding Texas regions. Its historic prairie setting now includes a mixture of agricultural areas and expanding developed corridors.
Regional context: Texas Blackland Prairies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Navarro County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Blackland Prairie84.8%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna9.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces5.7%
East Central Texas Plains in Navarro County
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Navarro County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Navarro County, including Corsicana, Retreat, Angus. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Navarro County by land and water
The Census records 76.3 square miles of water within Navarro County, or 7% of its total area. That share is close to Navarro County’s 7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Navarro County has 202.5 times the land area of nearby Retreat town (4.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ellis County, Freestone County, Henderson County, Hill County, Limestone County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

