THE WALKER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Walker County has 784.2 square miles of land in Texas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Walker County: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Southern Post Oak Savanna, Floodplains and Low Terraces, among others.
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
Walker County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands87.1%
- Southern Post Oak Savanna7.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces4.8%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces0.3%
East Central Texas Plains in Walker County
The Post Oak Savanna's irregular plains form a transition between open prairie and the Piney Woods. Post oak, grassland and locally dense clay subsoils are characteristic regional elements.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Walker County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Walker County, including Huntsville, New Waverly, Riverside. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Walker County by land and water
The Census records 17.3 square miles of water within Walker County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Walker County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Walker County has 18.8 times the land area of nearby Huntsville city (41.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grimes County, Houston County, Madison County, Montgomery County, San Jacinto County, Trinity County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

