THE TERRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Llano Estacado setting.
Terry County has 888.9 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Terry County: Llano Estacado, Shinnery Sands.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Terry County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Llano Estacado93.5%
- Shinnery Sands6.5%
Finding your parcel within Terry County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Terry County, including Brownfield, Meadow, Wellman. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Terry County by land and water
The Census records 2.09 square miles of water within Terry County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Terry County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Terry County has 136.5 times the land area of nearby Brownfield city (6.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cochran County, Dawson County, Gaines County, Hockley County, Lubbock County, Lynn County, Yoakum County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

