Colorer chaque région
L'intensité de la couleur porte la valeur. Le bon choix pour les taux, les parts et les données par habitant, déjà ajustés à la taille ou à la population.
Ouvrir le modèleToutes les cartes
Texas County Map Maker
A blank Texas county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 254 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Texas map you can embed anywhere.
Fond de carte Texas vierge, à télécharger gratuitement
Les 254 counties, en tracé net. Imprimez-le, coloriez-le ou insérez-le dans un document — sans compte et sans attribution.
Libre pour tout usage, y compris commercial et scolaire. Généré à partir des mêmes contours que l'éditeur.
Télécharger le SVGCe que montre une carte Texas
Texas divides into 254 counties — more than any other state, and more than twice the number in the next largest. That count is the whole character of the map. The eastern third is a dense mosaic of small counties laid out when a day's ride defined a county seat, while single counties out west run larger than Connecticut: Brewster alone covers over six thousand square miles. Population runs the other way. Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar and Travis hold roughly half the state between them in five small shapes near the middle of the picture, and Loving County in the far west has fewer residents than a school bus holds. Any Texas county map is therefore two maps at once — an area map that shouts about the west, and a population map that whispers there — and knowing which one you are drawing is the difference between a chart that informs and one that misleads.
Trois façons de dessiner Texas
Colorez les régions pour un taux, dimensionnez un marqueur pour un effectif. Inverser les deux est la façon la plus courante de tromper le lecteur.
Un marqueur dimensionné par région
Un symbole par région, mis à l'échelle selon la valeur. À utiliser pour les effectifs et les totaux, là où colorer la surface ne ferait que redessiner la carte de la population.
Ouvrir le modèleCercles proportionnels
Des cercles dimensionnés par la valeur, posés sur le tracé. Efficace quand quelques régions dominent et que les petites disparaîtraient dans un aplat.
Ouvrir le modèleQuand cartographier Texas
Your data is reported by Texas county
DSHS health indicators, Texas Workforce Commission labour figures, TEA school data, Secretary of State election returns and Railroad Commission production tables are all published by county.
You are showing a rate or a share
Uninsured rate, unemployment rate, share of the vote, median household income. Rates are already adjusted for population, which is what shading a region needs.
You want to show the metro-and-rural split
The five big metros against 240-odd rural counties is the fundamental Texas story, and it is a geographic story. A county map makes it something the reader sees rather than something they have to be told.
You need a blank map to print or fill in
Classroom exercises, territory planning, colour-by-hand sessions. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size.
Quand éviter la carte Texas
You are mapping totals rather than rates
Shade by a raw count and Harris County wins every time — it holds about one Texan in six inside one of the smaller shapes on the map. Use symbols or bubbles sized by the count instead.
You want county labels on every shape
254 names do not fit. Label the dozen counties your argument rests on, leave the tooltip to carry the rest, and let the reader hover for the ones they care about.
Your unit is a city, a metro or a school district
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex spans eleven counties, Houston's spans nine, and Texas school districts cross county lines freely. Squeezing any of these onto counties misplaces the thing you are describing.
Only a few counties have data
Surveys with a state-level sample rarely support 254 estimates. A map with two hundred grey shapes is a worse table — rank the counties you actually have.
Comment créer une carte Texas
Du tableur à la carte publiée, étape par étape.
Download the blank map, or start from the template
The free outline above is a plain SVG of all 254 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Texas (counties) template, which comes with sample data already bound.
Prepare a county column and a value column
One row per county: the county name or its five-digit FIPS code in the first column, your number in the second. FIPS codes for Texas all begin 48.
Upload or connect your data
Import a CSV or Excel file, paste from a spreadsheet, or connect a Google Sheet so the map can be refreshed when the source updates.
Pick the style that fits the measure
Shade the counties for a rate, or switch to symbols or bubbles for a count. Same geography, same data, different encoding — and with Texas the choice matters more than it does anywhere else.
Choose a colour scale on purpose
Sequential for a low-to-high measure, diverging only when a real midpoint exists — the state average, zero change, a 50 per cent line. Four to six steps read more precisely than a smooth gradient across 254 shapes.
Publish, embed or export
Publish for a live interactive map with a tooltip on every county, or export a PNG, SVG or PDF for a report or a deck.
Partez du modèle Texas avec ses données d'exemple, puis remplacez-les par les vôtres.
Ouvrir le modèleFaire correspondre vos données Texas
À quoi doit ressembler la colonne des lieux, et où trouver des données déjà compatibles.
All 254 counties, spelled as the state spells them
Watch the ones that break a join: Bexar, DeWitt, Deaf Smith, Val Verde, La Salle, Jim Hogg and Jim Wells, Palo Pinto, Nacogdoches, Tom Green. Matching on FIPS avoids every one of these.
Texas FIPS codes start at 48
48001 is Anderson, 48507 is Zavala. Store the column as text so the leading digits survive, and note that the county part is odd-numbered rather than sequential.
County names are not city names
Bexar County is San Antonio, Harris is Houston, Tarrant is Fort Worth and Travis is Austin. There is a Dallas County, but Dallas the city spills into Collin, Denton, Rockwall and Kaufman as well.
Where to get Texas county data
The Texas Department of State Health Services, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Water Development Board and the Secretary of State all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's ACS.
Erreurs fréquentes sur une carte Texas
Shading counts instead of rates
It produces a population map every time — the five metro counties glow and the other 249 disappear. Anything that grows simply because more people live there should be a sized symbol, not a shade.
Letting empty west Texas carry the eye
The largest shapes hold the fewest people. A single county with a hundred residents and a striking colour will dominate a map that is otherwise about millions of Texans, so say so in the caption or suppress low-count counties explicitly.
Joining on names without checking spelling
DeWitt, De Witt and Dewitt are three different strings, and a silent mismatch leaves a blank county rather than an error. Join on FIPS where you can.
Using a rainbow colour scale
A sequence of hues has no natural order, so readers cannot tell high from low without checking the legend on every one of 254 counties. Use one hue, light to dark.
Questions sur la carte Texas
Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 254 Texas counties — right-click to save it, print it, or drop it into a worksheet or document. No account needed.
Placez vos données sur la carte Texas
Importez un tableur et publiez une carte interactive en quelques minutes — gratuit, sans carte bancaire.