THE LE FLORE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arkansas Valley Plains setting.
Le Flore County has 1,589.4 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Le Flore County: Arkansas Valley Plains, Fourche Mountains, Western Ouachitas, among others.
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.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Le Flore County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Arkansas Valley Plains42.6%
- Fourche Mountains24.1%
- Western Ouachitas11.9%
- Western Ouachita Valleys7.6%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains7.3%
Ouachita Mountains in Le Flore County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Le Flore County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Le Flore County, including Pocola, Poteau, Fanshawe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Le Flore County by land and water
The Census records 19.2 square miles of water within Le Flore County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Le Flore County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Le Flore County has 1,068.2 times the land area of nearby Howe town (1.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Haskell County, Latimer County, McCurtain County, Pushmataha County, Sequoyah County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

