THE WEBB COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub setting.
Webb County has 3,361.5 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Webb County: Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub, Rio Grande Floodplain and Terraces.
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
Webb County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Texas-Tamaulipan Thornscrub97.5%
- Rio Grande Floodplain and Terraces2.5%
Finding your parcel within Webb County
The atlas lists 40 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Webb County, including Laredo, La Moca Ranch, Ranchitos Las Lomas. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Webb County by land and water
The Census records 14.1 square miles of water within Webb County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Webb County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Webb County has 21,141.5 times the land area of nearby Los Veteranos II CDP (0.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dimmit County, Duval County, Jim Hogg County, La Salle County, Maverick County, McMullen County, Zapata County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

