THE TYLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Tyler County has 924.4 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Tyler County: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Flatwoods, Floodplains and Low Terraces.
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Tyler County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands64.5%
- Flatwoods28.3%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces7.3%
Finding your parcel within Tyler County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tyler County, including Wildwood, Warren, Ivanhoe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tyler County by land and water
The Census records 11.2 square miles of water within Tyler County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Tyler County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tyler County has 293.9 times the land area of nearby Woodville town (3.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Angelina County, Hardin County, Jasper County, Polk County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.