THE OKEECHOBEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Florida Flatwoods setting.
Okeechobee County has 769.3 square miles of land in Florida. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Okeechobee County: Eastern Florida Flatwoods, Everglades.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Okeechobee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Florida Flatwoods86.5%
- Everglades13.5%
Southern Florida Coastal Plain in Okeechobee County
Very low-relief southern Florida terrain includes marsh, swamp, Everglades and palmetto-prairie settings. Small elevation differences can correspond to substantial changes in vegetation and water conditions.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Okeechobee County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Okeechobee County, including Okeechobee, Taylor Creek, Cypress Quarters. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Okeechobee County by land and water
The Census records 122.7 square miles of water within Okeechobee County, or 13.8% of its total area. That share is close to Okeechobee County’s 13.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Okeechobee County has 189.7 times the land area of nearby Okeechobee city (4.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Glades County, Hendry County, Highlands County, Indian River County, Martin County, Osceola County, Palm Beach County, Polk County and other counties within Florida. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

