THE NOWATA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Osage Cuestas setting.
Nowata County has 565.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. The mapped landscape region in Nowata County is Osage Cuestas.
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.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Nowata County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Nowata County, including Nowata, South Coffeyville, Watova. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Nowata County by land and water
The Census records 15 square miles of water within Nowata County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Nowata County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Nowata County has 1,436.1 times the land area of nearby Delaware town (0.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Craig County, Rogers County, Washington County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

