THE LOVE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Cross Timbers setting.
Love County has 513.9 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Love County: Western Cross Timbers, Eastern Cross Timbers, Grand Prairie, among others.
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
Love County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Cross Timbers53.4%
- Eastern Cross Timbers26.6%
- Grand Prairie15.8%
- Broken Red Plains3%
- Arbuckle Uplift1.1%
Central Great Plains in Love County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Love County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Love County, including Burneyville, Marietta, Thackerville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Love County by land and water
The Census records 18.3 square miles of water within Love County, or 3.4% of its total area. That share is close to Love County’s 3.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Love County has 29.7 times the land area of nearby Burneyville CDP (17.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carter County, Jefferson County, Marshall County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

