Atascosa County

Atascosa County, Texas

Atascosa County, Texas

Atascosa County, Texas. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
Atascosa County, Texas

Atascosa County, Texas

Map of Atascosa County, Texas. Map Credit: Robert Plocheck.

Atascosa County (at-uhs-KO-suh) is south of San Antonio on Interstate Highway 37 in the Rio Grande Plain region of south central Texas. Jourdanton, the county seat, is located on state highways 16 and 97 in central Atascosa County thirty-three miles south of San Antonio and 100 miles northwest of Corpus Christi. The geographic center point of the county is 28°50' N, 98°30' W. The county covers 1,218 square miles of level to rolling land. Elevation ranges from 350 to 700 feet, and the soils are generally deep with loamy surface layers and clayey subsoils. Along the southern borders the light-colored soils have limestone near the surface. In some areas the soils are gray to black, cracking and clayey, and expand and shrink considerably. In the South Texas Plains vegetation area, the subtropical dry-land vegetation consists primarily of cactus, weeds, grasses, thorny shrubs and trees such as mesquite, and live oak and post oak. Many of the open grasslands have been seeded with buffalo grass. Between 41 and 50 percent of the county is considered prime farmland. Wildlife in Atascosa County includes white-tailed deer, javelina, turkey, fox squirrel, jackrabbits, foxes, ring-tailed cats, skunks, and opossum. The main predators are bobcats and coyotes. Ducks, cranes, and geese migrate across the county. Tanks are stocked with catfish, bass, and sunfish. Mineral resources include clay, uranium, sand and gravel, and oil and gas. Other minerals and products include caliche and clay, lignite coal, construction and industrial sand, sulfur, and uranium.

The climate is subtropical-subhumid; winters are mild and summers are hot. The average annual temperature is 70°F. Temperatures range in January from an average low of 40° F to an average high of 65° and in July from 74° to 97°. The average annual precipitation is twenty-seven inches, with an average relative humidity of 84 percent at six A.M. and 51 percent at six P.M. There is no significant snowfall. The growing season averages 282 days a year, with the last freeze in late February and the first freeze in early December. The sun shines an average 65 percent of the daylight hours.

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Currently Exists

Yes

Place type

Atascosa County is classified as a County

Altitude Range

180 ft – 784 ft

Size

Land area does not include water surface area, whereas total area does

  • Land Area: 1,219.5 mi²
  • Total Area: 1,221.5 mi²

Temperature

January mean minimum: 39.3°F
July mean maximum: 95.4°F

Rainfall, 2019

32.1 inches

Population Count, 2019

51,153

Civilian Labor Count, 2019

21,755

Unemployment, 2019

9.9%

Property Values, 2019

$5,523,292 USD

Per-Capita Income, 2019

$36,660 USD

Retail Sales, 2019

$704,903,086 USD

Wages, 2019

$196,429,341 USD

Atascosa County

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