THE SHACKELFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Limestone Plains setting.
Shackelford County has 914.3 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Shackelford County: Limestone Plains, Broken Red Plains, Red Prairie, among others.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Shackelford County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Limestone Plains58%
- Broken Red Plains37.3%
- Red Prairie3.9%
- Western Cross Timbers0.8%
Cross Timbers in Shackelford County
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Shackelford County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Shackelford County, including Albany, Lueders, Moran. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Shackelford County by land and water
The Census records 1.26 square miles of water within Shackelford County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Shackelford County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Shackelford County has 583.5 times the land area of nearby Albany city (1.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Callahan County, Eastland County, Haskell County, Jones County, Stephens County, Throckmorton County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

