THE THROCKMORTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Throckmorton County has 912.6 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Throckmorton County: Broken Red Plains, Limestone Plains, Red Prairie.
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
Throckmorton County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains58.2%
- Limestone Plains41.7%
- Red Prairie0.1%
Finding your parcel within Throckmorton County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Throckmorton County, including Elbert, Throckmorton, Woodson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Throckmorton County by land and water
The Census records 2.93 square miles of water within Throckmorton County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Throckmorton County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Throckmorton County has 548.7 times the land area of nearby Throckmorton town (1.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archer County, Baylor County, Haskell County, Knox County, Shackelford County, Stephens County, Young County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

