THE SCURRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat Tablelands and Valleys setting.
Scurry County has 905.4 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Scurry County: Flat Tablelands and Valleys, Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Red Prairie.
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
Scurry County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys69.9%
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks29.5%
- Red Prairie0.6%
Central Great Plains in Scurry County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Scurry County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Scurry County, including Hermleigh, Snyder, Fluvanna. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Scurry County by land and water
The Census records 2.1 square miles of water within Scurry County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Scurry County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Scurry County has 101.3 times the land area of nearby Snyder city (8.94 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Borden County, Fisher County, Garza County, Kent County, Mitchell County, Nolan County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

