THE POTTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Canadian Breaks setting.
Potter County has 908.4 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Potter County: Semiarid Canadian Breaks, Llano Estacado, Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, among others.
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.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Potter County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Semiarid Canadian Breaks60.3%
- Llano Estacado19.4%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks19.4%
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains1%
High Plains in Potter County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Potter County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Potter County, including Amarillo, Bushland, Bishop Hills. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Potter County by land and water
The Census records 13.6 square miles of water within Potter County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Potter County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Potter County has 2,902.2 times the land area of nearby Bishop Hills town (0.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Armstrong County, Carson County, Deaf Smith County, Moore County, Oldham County, Randall County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

