THE POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Cross Timbers setting.
Pottawatomie County has 787.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pottawatomie County: Northern Cross Timbers, Cross Timbers Transition.
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
Pottawatomie County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Cross Timbers99.7%
- Cross Timbers Transition0.3%
Central Great Plains in Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pottawatomie County, including Oklahoma City, Shawnee, Pink. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pottawatomie County by land and water
The Census records 5.71 square miles of water within Pottawatomie County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Pottawatomie County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pottawatomie County has 264.5 times the land area of nearby Brooksville town (2.98 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cleveland County, Lincoln County, McClain County, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma County, Pontotoc County, Seminole County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

