THE OKLAHOMA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Oklahoma County has 708.9 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Oklahoma County: Northern Cross Timbers, Cross Timbers Transition, Prairie Tableland.
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
Oklahoma County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers59.3%
- Cross Timbers Transition33.8%
- Prairie Tableland7%
Central Great Plains in Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Oklahoma County, including Oklahoma City, Edmond, Choctaw. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Oklahoma County by land and water
The Census records 9.54 square miles of water within Oklahoma County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Oklahoma County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Oklahoma County has 2,769.1 times the land area of nearby Lake Aluma town (0.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Canadian County, Cleveland County, Kingfisher County, Lincoln County, Logan County, Pottawatomie County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

