THE PECOS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chihuahuan Basins and Playas setting.
Pecos County has 4,763.8 square miles of land in Texas. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Pecos County: Chihuahuan Basins and Playas, Stockton Plateau, Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands, among others.
Desert basins and mountain ranges extend across this region, with the Rio Grande and Pecos as important drainage corridors. Arid shrubland and grassland contrast with wooded higher elevations.
Regional context: Chihuahuan Deserts ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pecos County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chihuahuan Basins and Playas58.4%
- Stockton Plateau37.2%
- Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands1.8%
- Chihuahuan Montane Woodlands1.3%
- Low Mountains and Bajadas1.3%
Finding your parcel within Pecos County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pecos County, including Fort Stockton, Imperial, Sheffield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pecos County by land and water
The Census records 0.98 square miles of water within Pecos County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Pecos County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pecos County has 858.5 times the land area of nearby Fort Stockton city (5.55 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brewster County, Crane County, Crockett County, Jeff Davis County, Reeves County, Terrell County, Ward County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

