LOCATION
Ochiltree County is located in the extreme
northeastern Texas Panhandle, seven miles from the Oklahoma state line on the north and 56 miles on the
eastern side, and is distinguished as the northernmost county seat in Texas. The
northwestern two-thirds of Ochiltree County is located in the High Plains Region of the
Great Plains and the southeastern third falls in the Rolling Plains Region of the
North Central Plains.
Ochiltree County is located in the Great Wheat Belt of the
southwest and includes both farm and grazing land underlaid by deposits of oil and gas in
the rich Anadarko Basin. A part of the northern Texas Panhandle, the county is part of
the treeless area extending from western Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas to near the
Rocky Mountains.
Land elevation averages 2,942 feet. Perryton, the County Seat of
Ochiltree County
situated in the north central portion of the county, 116 miles
northeast of Amarillo, 398
miles northwest of Dallas, and 374 miles northwest of Fort
Worth.
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