THE COMANCHE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cross Timbers Transition setting.
Comanche County has 1,069.3 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Comanche County: Cross Timbers Transition, Broken Red Plains, Wichita Mountains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Comanche County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cross Timbers Transition35.9%
- Broken Red Plains31.3%
- Wichita Mountains21.3%
- Limestone Hills5.5%
- Red Prairie4.8%
Cross Timbers in Comanche 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 ↗Finding your parcel within Comanche County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Comanche County, including Lawton, Elgin, Cache. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Comanche County by land and water
The Census records 14.5 square miles of water within Comanche County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Comanche County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Comanche County has 13.1 times the land area of nearby Lawton city (81.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caddo County, Cotton County, Grady County, Kiowa County, Stephens County, Tillman County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

