THE NOLAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Edwards Plateau setting.
Nolan County has 912 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Nolan County: Semiarid Edwards Plateau, Red Prairie, Flat Tablelands and Valleys, among others.
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Regional context: Edwards Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Nolan County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Semiarid Edwards Plateau62.6%
- Red Prairie20.4%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys16.5%
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks0.4%
Central Great Plains in Nolan 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 ↗Southwestern Tablelands in Nolan County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Nolan County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nolan County, including Sweetwater, Roscoe, Blackwell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nolan County by land and water
The Census records 1.95 square miles of water within Nolan County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Nolan County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nolan County has 83.6 times the land area of nearby Sweetwater city (10.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coke County, Fisher County, Jones County, Mitchell County, Runnels County, Scurry County, Taylor County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

