THE MAJOR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pleistocene Sand Dunes setting.
Major County has 955 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Major County: Pleistocene Sand Dunes, Gypsum Hills, Prairie Tableland, among others.
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
Major County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes41.4%
- Gypsum Hills26.5%
- Prairie Tableland25.9%
- Rolling Red Hills6.3%
Finding your parcel within Major County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Major County, including Fairview, Chester, Isabella. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Major County by land and water
The Census records 2.95 square miles of water within Major County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Major County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Major County has 133.9 times the land area of nearby Fairview city (7.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alfalfa County, Blaine County, Dewey County, Garfield County, Kingfisher County, Woods County, Woodward County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.