THE CUSTER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Red Hills setting.
Custer County has 988.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Custer County: Rolling Red Hills, Cross Timbers Transition, Pleistocene Sand Dunes.
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
Custer County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Red Hills81.7%
- Cross Timbers Transition17.8%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes0.5%
Finding your parcel within Custer County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Custer County, including Clinton, Weatherford, Thomas. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Custer County by land and water
The Census records 13.3 square miles of water within Custer County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Custer County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Custer County has 1,414.6 times the land area of nearby Arapaho town (0.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beckham County, Blaine County, Caddo County, Dewey County, Roger Mills County, Washita County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.