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The East Texas area, which might be considered as the humid portion of the central dissected belt of the Coastal Plains of the United States, comprises the Sabine Uplift area, the East Texas basin, and the rolling plains southward as far as the coastal prairies. These areas may be separated from the rest of Texas roughly by a line extending from the Red River in north central Lamar County southwestward to east central Limestone County and then southeastward to Galveston Bay. Most of East Texas is forested, and except the post oak plains, the majority of the forests belong to the mixed type of shortleaf pine and hardwoods. Southward, however, along the southern margin of the dissected plains, a tongue of longleaf pines extends into Texas from Louisiana.

The longleaf portion of East Texas is an area of deep sands underlain at a depth of several feet by well-drained sandy clays. Still farther south, extending into the edges of the flat coastal country east of Houston, is a forested area composed of an admixture of loblolly pines and water-tolerant oaks. The broad lowlands paralleling the larger streams that flow across East Texas are characterized by a heavy growth of hardwood forests. Most of the upland soils of the central dissected belt of East Texas are highly leached. The majority of the soils have yellow subsoils, the surface soils being grayish in aspect. Red soils occur in exceptional areas, such as on slopes underlain by calcareous materials; such soils may be red from the surface downward to the unoxidized parent materials.