THE SOMERVELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Limestone Cut Plain setting.
Somervell County has 186.2 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Somervell County: Limestone Cut Plain, Grand Prairie.
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.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Somervell County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Limestone Cut Plain60%
- Grand Prairie40%
Finding your parcel within Somervell County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Somervell County, including Glen Rose. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Somervell County by land and water
The Census records 5.49 square miles of water within Somervell County, or 2.9% of its total area. That share is close to Somervell County’s 2.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Somervell County has 46.5 times the land area of nearby Glen Rose city (4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bosque County, Erath County, Hood County, Johnson County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

