THE REAL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Balcones Canyonlands setting.
Real County has 699.2 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Real County: Balcones Canyonlands, Edwards Plateau Woodland.
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Regional context: Edwards Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Real County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Balcones Canyonlands88%
- Edwards Plateau Woodland12%
Finding your parcel within Real County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Real County, including Leakey, Camp Wood. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Real County by land and water
The Census records 0.91 square miles of water within Real County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Real County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Real County has 1,237.5 times the land area of nearby Leakey city (0.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bandera County, Edwards County, Kerr County, Uvalde County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

