Your property lines are public record. Here’s how to see them.

Start at the county. It’s free.

Every parcel in Texas is on file with its county appraisal district, and most districts publish a parcel map online — search your address, and the recorded boundary appears with the acreage and owner of record. Behind that map sit your deed and any recorded plat or survey at the county clerk’s office; those carry the legal description the parcel map is drawn from.

That’s the honest source. Everything else — every app, every website, every printed map, including ours — is drawing the county’s record.

Walking the line with your phone.

Parcel research tools and hunting apps overlay the county record on aerial imagery, so you can stand in the pasture and watch the dot that is you approach the line. Useful — genuinely. Two things to keep in mind while you walk:

• A phone fix is approximate — consumer GPS wanders by yards, more under canopy. Treat the line on the screen as a guide, not a verdict.
• The record is not a survey — the county parcel map is the tax office’s drawing of the boundary. If a fence, a build, or a neighbor turns it into a question of law, a licensed surveyor marks the true line on the ground. No map replaces that — ours included.

Now put it somewhere worth looking at.

A browser tab closes. A map of your land, with the recorded boundary drawn over high-resolution aerial imagery or topographic contours, your gates and tanks and trails marked, your name and acreage in the title block — that hangs in the hall and answers the question every visitor asks.

In the studio, you zoom to your ground and tap your parcel; the boundary comes straight off the county record. Compose it, name it, and print it on fine paper, canvas, or engraved metal.

The county drew the line. We make it worth framing.

Property lines, plainly.