THE MCCURTAIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Ouachitas setting.
McCurtain County has 1,850.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across McCurtain County: Western Ouachitas, Cretaceous Dissected Uplands, Central Mountain Ranges, 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
McCurtain County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Ouachitas25.3%
- Cretaceous Dissected Uplands23.6%
- Central Mountain Ranges18.3%
- Athens Plateau11.9%
- Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces9.7%
South Central Plains in McCurtain County
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within McCurtain County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McCurtain County, including Idabel, Hochatown, Broken Bow. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McCurtain County by land and water
The Census records 51.7 square miles of water within McCurtain County, or 2.7% of its total area. That share is close to McCurtain County’s 2.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McCurtain County has 170.1 times the land area of nearby Hochatown town (10.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Choctaw County, Le Flore County, Pushmataha County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

