THE HUGHES COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Hughes County has 804.5 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hughes County: Northern Cross Timbers, Lower Canadian Hills.
The Cross Timbers mark a transition from prairie to more wooded eastern landscapes. Native grassland is interspersed with post oak and blackjack oak, creating a woodland-and-open-country mosaic.
Regional context: Cross Timbers ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hughes County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers53.9%
- Lower Canadian Hills46.1%
Arkansas Valley in Hughes County
The Arkansas Valley mixes forested ridges with broader valleys. Its terrain is less rugged than the Boston and Ouachita mountains that border it, but more varied than neighboring plains.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hughes County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hughes County, including Lamar, Holdenville, Horntown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hughes County by land and water
The Census records 10.2 square miles of water within Hughes County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Hughes County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hughes County has 203.5 times the land area of nearby Horntown town (3.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coal County, McIntosh County, Okfuskee County, Pittsburg County, Pontotoc County, Seminole County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

