THE UPSHUR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tertiary Uplands setting.
Upshur County has 583 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Upshur County: Tertiary Uplands, 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
Upshur County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tertiary Uplands98.1%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces1.9%
Finding your parcel within Upshur County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Upshur County, including Gladewater, Clarksville City, Gilmer. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Upshur County by land and water
The Census records 9.61 square miles of water within Upshur County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Upshur County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Upshur County has 153.8 times the land area of nearby Gilmer city (3.79 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Camp County, Gregg County, Harrison County, Marion County, Morris County, Smith County, Wood County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

