THE STEPHENS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northwestern Cross Timbers setting.
Stephens County has 870.2 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Stephens County: Northwestern Cross Timbers, Cross Timbers Transition, Broken Red Plains.
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
Stephens County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northwestern Cross Timbers70.1%
- Cross Timbers Transition17.8%
- Broken Red Plains12.1%
Central Great Plains in Stephens 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 Stephens County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stephens County, including Bray, Central High, Duncan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stephens County by land and water
The Census records 21.2 square miles of water within Stephens County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Stephens County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stephens County has 20.3 times the land area of nearby Duncan city (42.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carter County, Comanche County, Cotton County, Garvin County, Grady County, Jefferson County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

