THE YOUNG COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Young County has 914.5 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Young County: Broken Red Plains, Western Cross Timbers, Carbonate Cross Timbers.
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
Young County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains51.2%
- Western Cross Timbers45.9%
- Carbonate Cross Timbers2.9%
Cross Timbers in Young County
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Young County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Young County, including Graham, Olney, Loving. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Young County by land and water
The Census records 16.4 square miles of water within Young County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Young County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Young County has 510.9 times the land area of nearby Newcastle city (1.79 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archer County, Baylor County, Jack County, Palo Pinto County, Stephens County, Throckmorton County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

