THE SHERMAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Sherman County has 922.9 square miles of land in Texas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Sherman 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
Sherman County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains99.5%
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks0.5%
Southwestern Tablelands in Sherman 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 Sherman County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sherman County, including Stratford, Texhoma. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sherman County by land and water
The Census records 0.16 square miles of water within Sherman County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Sherman County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sherman County has 399.9 times the land area of nearby Stratford city (2.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dallam County, Hansford County, Hartley County, Hutchinson County, Moore County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

