THE LATIMER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Fourche Mountains setting.
Latimer County has 722.1 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Latimer County: Fourche Mountains, Scattered High Ridges and Mountains, Arkansas Valley Plains, among others.
Long east-west ridges formed from folded sedimentary rock define the Ouachitas. Forested slopes and narrow intervening valleys differ from the plateaus and broad lowlands around the range.
Regional context: Ouachita Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Latimer County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Fourche Mountains41.3%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains23.7%
- Arkansas Valley Plains19.4%
- Lower Canadian Hills7.5%
- Western Ouachita Valleys7.3%
Arkansas Valley in Latimer 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 Latimer County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Latimer County, including Fanshawe, Gowen, Wilburton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Latimer County by land and water
The Census records 7.04 square miles of water within Latimer County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Latimer County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Latimer County has 232.3 times the land area of nearby Wilburton city (3.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Haskell County, Le Flore County, Pittsburg County, Pushmataha County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

