THE OKMULGEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Okmulgee County has 697.4 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Okmulgee County: Northern Cross Timbers, 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
Okmulgee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers58.9%
- Osage Cuestas41.1%
Central Irregular Plains in Okmulgee 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 Okmulgee County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Okmulgee County, including Okmulgee, Henryetta, Liberty. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Okmulgee County by land and water
The Census records 5 square miles of water within Okmulgee County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Okmulgee County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Okmulgee County has 40.5 times the land area of nearby Okmulgee city (17.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Creek County, McIntosh County, Muskogee County, Okfuskee County, Tulsa County, Wagoner County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

