THE WASHITA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Red Hills setting.
Washita County has 1,003.1 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Washita County: Rolling Red Hills, Cross Timbers Transition, Red Prairie.
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
Washita County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Red Hills92.7%
- Cross Timbers Transition7.1%
- Red Prairie0.2%
Finding your parcel within Washita County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Washita County, including Clinton, New Cordell, Colony. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Washita County by land and water
The Census records 5.63 square miles of water within Washita County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Washita County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Washita County has 446 times the land area of nearby New Cordell city (2.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beckham County, Caddo County, Custer County, Kiowa County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.