THE DEWEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Red Hills setting.
Dewey County has 999.6 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Dewey County: Rolling Red Hills, Pleistocene Sand Dunes, Prairie Tableland, 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
Dewey County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Red Hills74.8%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes21.4%
- Prairie Tableland3.4%
- Cross Timbers Transition0.5%
Finding your parcel within Dewey County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Dewey County, including Seiling, Taloga, Fay. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Dewey County by land and water
The Census records 8.75 square miles of water within Dewey County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Dewey County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Dewey County has 1,937.3 times the land area of nearby Taloga town (0.52 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blaine County, Custer County, Ellis County, Major County, Roger Mills County, Woodward County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.