THE ELLIS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron Breaks setting.
Ellis County has 1,231.5 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ellis County: Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Rolling Red Hills.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ellis County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks58.9%
- Rolling Red Hills41.1%
Central Great Plains in Ellis County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Ellis County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ellis County, including Shattuck, Fargo, Arnett. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ellis County by land and water
The Census records 0.37 square miles of water within Ellis County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Ellis County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ellis County has 2,386.6 times the land area of nearby Arnett town (0.52 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaver County, Dewey County, Harper 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.

