THE TARRANT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Grand Prairie setting.
Tarrant County has 865.4 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Tarrant County: Grand Prairie, Eastern Cross Timbers, Northern Blackland Prairie, among others.
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
Tarrant County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Grand Prairie50.1%
- Eastern Cross Timbers32.8%
- Northern Blackland Prairie10.5%
- Western Cross Timbers6.7%
Texas Blackland Prairies in Tarrant County
Fine-textured clay soils distinguish the Blackland Prairie landscape from surrounding Texas regions. Its historic prairie setting now includes a mixture of agricultural areas and expanding developed corridors.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Tarrant County
The atlas lists 45 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tarrant County, including Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tarrant County by land and water
The Census records 38.4 square miles of water within Tarrant County, or 4.2% of its total area. That share is close to Tarrant County’s 4.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tarrant County has 70.1 times the land area of nearby Haltom City city (12.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dallas County, Denton County, Ellis County, Johnson County, Parker County, Wise County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

