THE WOODWARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Red Hills setting.
Woodward County has 1,242.8 square miles of land in Oklahoma. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Woodward County: Rolling Red Hills, Pleistocene Sand Dunes, Gypsum Hills, 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
Woodward County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Red Hills56.9%
- Pleistocene Sand Dunes25.2%
- Gypsum Hills16.8%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks1.1%
Southwestern Tablelands in Woodward 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 Woodward County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Woodward County, including Woodward, Mooreland, Quinlan. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Woodward County by land and water
The Census records 3.74 square miles of water within Woodward County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Woodward County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Woodward County has 1,409.1 times the land area of nearby Mooreland town (0.88 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dewey County, Ellis County, Harper County, Major County, Woods County within Oklahoma. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

