THE COAL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lower Canadian Hills setting.
Coal County has 516.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Coal County: Lower Canadian Hills, Arbuckle Uplift, Cretaceous Dissected Uplands.
The Arkansas Valley mixes forested ridges with broader valleys. Its terrain is less rugged than the Boston and Ouachita mountains that border it, but more varied than neighboring plains.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Coal County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lower Canadian Hills89.6%
- Arbuckle Uplift9.1%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands1.3%
Cross Timbers in Coal County
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.
Read the regional source ↗South Central Plains in Coal County
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Coal County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coal County, including Clarita, Coalgate, Lehigh. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coal County by land and water
The Census records 4.66 square miles of water within Coal County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Coal County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coal County has 2,058.9 times the land area of nearby Centrahoma city (0.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atoka County, Hughes County, Johnston County, Pittsburg County, Pontotoc County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

