THE PRESIDIO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Low Mountains and Bajadas setting.
Presidio County has 3,855.3 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Presidio County: Low Mountains and Bajadas, Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands, Chihuahuan Montane Woodlands.
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
Presidio County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Low Mountains and Bajadas60.4%
- Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands38.1%
- Chihuahuan Montane Woodlands1.5%
Finding your parcel within Presidio County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Presidio County, including Redford, Presidio, Marfa. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Presidio County by land and water
The Census records 0.69 square miles of water within Presidio County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Presidio County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Presidio County has 2,375.4 times the land area of nearby Marfa city (1.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brewster County, Hudspeth County, Jeff Davis County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

