THE OCHILTREE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Ochiltree County has 917.7 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ochiltree County: Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Canadian/Cimarron Breaks.
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
Ochiltree County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains73.3%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks26.7%
Southwestern Tablelands in Ochiltree 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 Ochiltree County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ochiltree County, including Perryton, Farnsworth, Booker. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ochiltree County by land and water
The Census records 0.51 square miles of water within Ochiltree County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Ochiltree County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ochiltree County has 191.3 times the land area of nearby Perryton city (4.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hansford County, Lipscomb County, Roberts County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

