THE WOODS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Prairie Tableland setting.
Woods County has 1,286.5 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Woods County: Prairie Tableland, Rolling Red Hills, Pleistocene Sand Dunes, among others.
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
Woods County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Prairie Tableland35.9%
- Rolling Red Hills30.3%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes28%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks5.3%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys0.3%
Southwestern Tablelands in Woods 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 Woods County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Woods County, including Alva, Waynoka, Dacoma. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Woods County by land and water
The Census records 3.51 square miles of water within Woods County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Woods County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Woods County has 12,252.2 times the land area of nearby Avard CDP (0.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alfalfa County, Harper County, Major County, Woodward County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

