THE JACKSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Red River Tablelands setting.
Jackson County has 802.7 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Jackson County: Red River Tablelands, Red Prairie, Wichita Mountains.
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
Jackson County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Red River Tablelands65.1%
- Red Prairie34.4%
- Wichita Mountains0.6%
Finding your parcel within Jackson County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jackson County, including Altus, Olustee, Eldorado. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jackson County by land and water
The Census records 1.59 square miles of water within Jackson County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Jackson County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jackson County has 963.6 times the land area of nearby Olustee town (0.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Greer County, Harmon County, Kiowa County, Tillman County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.