THE MURRAY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Murray County has 416.4 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Murray County: Northern Cross Timbers, Arbuckle Mountains, Arbuckle Uplift, 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
Murray County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers39.7%
- Arbuckle Mountains35%
- Arbuckle Uplift22.6%
- Northwestern Cross Timbers1.8%
- Cross Timbers Transition0.9%
Central Great Plains in Murray 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 Murray County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Murray County, including Davis, Sulphur, Hickory. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Murray County by land and water
The Census records 8.77 square miles of water within Murray County, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Murray County’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Murray County has 69 times the land area of nearby Sulphur city (6.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carter County, Garvin County, Johnston County, Pontotoc County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.