THE CLEVELAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Cleveland County has 538.9 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cleveland County: Northern Cross Timbers, Cross Timbers Transition, Prairie Tableland.
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cleveland County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers56.4%
- Cross Timbers Transition43.5%
- Prairie Tableland0.1%
Central Great Plains in Cleveland 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 Cleveland County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cleveland County, including Oklahoma City, Norman, Slaughterville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cleveland County by land and water
The Census records 19 square miles of water within Cleveland County, or 3.4% of its total area. That share is close to Cleveland County’s 3.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cleveland County has 3 times the land area of nearby Norman city (178.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Canadian County, McClain County, Oklahoma County, Pottawatomie County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

