THE COTTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Cotton County has 632.6 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Cotton County: Broken Red Plains, Cross Timbers Transition.
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
Cotton County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains95.2%
- Cross Timbers Transition4.8%
Finding your parcel within Cotton County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cotton County, including Walters, Temple, Randlett. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cotton County by land and water
The Census records 9.26 square miles of water within Cotton County, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Cotton County’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cotton County has 78.4 times the land area of nearby Walters city (8.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Comanche County, Jefferson 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.

