THE WICHITA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Wichita County has 627.6 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wichita County: Broken Red Plains, Red Prairie.
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Wichita County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains96%
- Red Prairie4%
Finding your parcel within Wichita County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wichita County, including Wichita Falls, Burkburnett, Iowa Park. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wichita County by land and water
The Census records 5.27 square miles of water within Wichita County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Wichita County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wichita County has 146.7 times the land area of nearby Iowa Park city (4.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archer County, Baylor County, Clay County, Wilbarger County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.