THE NEWTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Newton County has 933.7 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Newton County: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Flatwoods, 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
Newton County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands49.3%
- Flatwoods40.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces10.5%
Finding your parcel within Newton County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Newton County, including Deweyville, Newton, South Toledo Bend. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Newton County by land and water
The Census records 6.05 square miles of water within Newton County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Newton County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Newton County has 171.5 times the land area of nearby Newton city (5.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jasper County, Orange County, Sabine County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.