THE JEFFERSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Broken Red Plains setting.
Jefferson County has 759 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Jefferson County: Broken Red Plains, Northwestern Cross Timbers, Western Cross Timbers.
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
Jefferson County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Broken Red Plains97.3%
- Northwestern Cross Timbers1.6%
- Western Cross Timbers1.1%
Cross Timbers in Jefferson County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Jefferson County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jefferson County, including Waurika, Ryan, Ringling. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jefferson County by land and water
The Census records 15.2 square miles of water within Jefferson County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Jefferson County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jefferson County has 3,285.5 times the land area of nearby Sugden town (0.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carter County, Cotton County, Love County, Stephens County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

