THE TEXAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Texas County has 2,041.3 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Texas County: Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Rolling Sand Plains.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Texas County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains63.6%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks32.3%
- Rolling Sand Plains4%
Southwestern Tablelands in Texas 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 Texas County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Texas County, including Guymon, Goodwell, Hooker. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Texas County by land and water
The Census records 7.4 square miles of water within Texas County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Texas County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Texas County has 263.9 times the land area of nearby Guymon city (7.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaver County, Cimarron County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

