THE MCINTOSH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
McIntosh County has 618.3 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across McIntosh County: Northern Cross Timbers, Lower Canadian Hills, Osage Cuestas.
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
McIntosh County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers50.5%
- Lower Canadian Hills29.4%
- Osage Cuestas20.1%
Arkansas Valley in McIntosh 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 ↗Central Irregular Plains in McIntosh County
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within McIntosh County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McIntosh County, including Texanna, Shady Grove, Checotah. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McIntosh County by land and water
The Census records 93.8 square miles of water within McIntosh County, or 13.2% of its total area. That share is close to McIntosh County’s 13.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McIntosh County has 19,321.6 times the land area of nearby Stidham town (0.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Haskell County, Hughes County, Muskogee County, Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Pittsburg County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

