THE GARFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Prairie Tableland setting.
Garfield County has 1,058.5 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Garfield County: Prairie Tableland, 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
Garfield County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Prairie Tableland92.5%
- Cross Timbers Transition4.7%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes2.8%
Finding your parcel within Garfield County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Garfield County, including Enid, Breckenridge, Waukomis. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Garfield County by land and water
The Census records 1.57 square miles of water within Garfield County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Garfield County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Garfield County has 4,447.5 times the land area of nearby Fairmont town (0.24 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alfalfa County, Grant County, Kay County, Kingfisher County, Logan County, Major County, Noble County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.