THE PANOLA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Panola County has 811.4 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Panola County: 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
Panola County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands89.5%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces10.5%
Finding your parcel within Panola County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Panola County, including Carthage, Tatum, Gary City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Panola County by land and water
The Census records 9.97 square miles of water within Panola County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Panola County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Panola County has 76.1 times the land area of nearby Carthage city (10.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Harrison County, Rusk County, Shelby County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

