THE TULSA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Osage Cuestas setting.
Tulsa County has 570.2 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Tulsa County: Osage Cuestas, Northern Cross Timbers.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Tulsa County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Osage Cuestas81.5%
- Northern Cross Timbers18.5%
Cross Timbers in Tulsa County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Tulsa County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tulsa County, including Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Bixby. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tulsa County by land and water
The Census records 16.6 square miles of water within Tulsa County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Tulsa County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tulsa County has 2.9 times the land area of nearby Tulsa city (197.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Creek County, Okmulgee County, Osage County, Pawnee County, Rogers County, Wagoner County, Washington County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

