THE UVALDE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains setting.
Uvalde County has 1,551.9 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Uvalde County: Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains, Balcones Canyonlands, Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub.
Rolling to dissected plains support the thorny brush landscape associated with South Texas. Mesquite and other shrubs are prominent within this warm transition between grassland and desert regions.
Regional context: Southern Texas Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Uvalde County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Nueces Alluvial Plains44.5%
- Balcones Canyonlands40%
- Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub15.6%
Edwards Plateau in Uvalde County
A limestone plateau becomes more dissected toward its southern and eastern margins. Juniper-oak and mesquite-oak landscapes accompany valleys, springs and the region's distinctive underground drainage system.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Uvalde County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Uvalde County, including Uvalde, Uvalde Estates, Knippa. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Uvalde County by land and water
The Census records 6.71 square miles of water within Uvalde County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Uvalde County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Uvalde County has 303.5 times the land area of nearby Knippa CDP (5.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bandera County, Edwards County, Frio County, Kinney County, Maverick County, Medina County, Real County, Zavala County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

