THE PARKER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Cross Timbers setting.
Parker County has 903.7 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Parker County: Western Cross Timbers, Grand Prairie.
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Parker County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Cross Timbers71.2%
- Grand Prairie28.8%
Finding your parcel within Parker County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Parker County, including Fort Worth, Weatherford, Mineral Wells. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Parker County by land and water
The Census records 6.35 square miles of water within Parker County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Parker County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Parker County has 30.7 times the land area of nearby Weatherford city (29.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hood County, Jack County, Johnson County, Palo Pinto County, Tarrant County, Wise County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

