THE ROGER MILLS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Red Hills setting.
Roger Mills County has 1,141.1 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Roger Mills County: Rolling Red Hills, Red Prairie, Canadian/Cimarron Breaks.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Roger Mills County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Red Hills86.9%
- Red Prairie12%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks1%
Southwestern Tablelands in Roger Mills County
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Roger Mills County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Roger Mills County, including Sweetwater, Cheyenne, Hammon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Roger Mills County by land and water
The Census records 5.29 square miles of water within Roger Mills County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Roger Mills County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Roger Mills County has 1,155 times the land area of nearby Cheyenne town (0.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beckham County, Custer County, Dewey County, Ellis County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.