THE BEAVER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron Breaks setting.
Beaver County has 1,814.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Beaver County: Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Rolling Sand Plains, among others.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Beaver County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks64.1%
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains24.7%
- Rolling Sand Plains8.9%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys1.1%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes0.7%
High Plains in Beaver County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Central Great Plains in Beaver County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Beaver County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Beaver County, including Beaver, Turpin, Little Ponderosa. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Beaver County by land and water
The Census records 2.84 square miles of water within Beaver County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Beaver County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Beaver County has 1,580.9 times the land area of nearby Beaver town (1.15 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ellis County, Harper County, Texas County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

