THE PITTSBURG COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lower Canadian Hills setting.
Pittsburg County has 1,305.5 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Pittsburg County: Lower Canadian Hills, Fourche Mountains, Scattered High Ridges and Mountains, among others.
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.
Regional context: Arkansas Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pittsburg County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lower Canadian Hills81.4%
- Fourche Mountains13.5%
- Scattered High Ridges and Mountains2.3%
- Western Ouachitas1.6%
- Western Ouachita Valleys1.2%
Ouachita Mountains in Pittsburg County
Long east-west ridges formed from folded sedimentary rock define the Ouachitas. Forested slopes and narrow intervening valleys differ from the plateaus and broad lowlands around the range.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pittsburg County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pittsburg County, including Longtown, McAlester, Krebs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pittsburg County by land and water
The Census records 72.4 square miles of water within Pittsburg County, or 5.3% of its total area. That share is close to Pittsburg County’s 5.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pittsburg County has 73.3 times the land area of nearby McAlester city (17.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atoka County, Coal County, Haskell County, Hughes County, Latimer County, McIntosh County, Pushmataha County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

