THE CIMARRON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Cimarron County has 1,834.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Cimarron County: Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Rolling Sand Plains, Mesa de Maya/Black Mesa, among others.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cimarron County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains38.7%
- Rolling Sand Plains29.9%
- Mesa de Maya/Black Mesa17.8%
- Moderate Relief Plains13.6%
Southwestern Tablelands in Cimarron County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cimarron County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cimarron County, including Boise City, Kenton, Felt. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cimarron County by land and water
The Census records 6.15 square miles of water within Cimarron County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Cimarron County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cimarron County has 1,243.1 times the land area of nearby Boise City city (1.48 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Texas County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

