2,133 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.9% since 2020)
1,835 square miles of land · 1 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
2 active community water systems list Cimarron County in the area they serve, reporting 1,798 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BOISE CITY PWA groundwater · local government · OK2001303 | 1,483 served |
| KEYES UTILITY AUTH. groundwater · local government · OK2001302 | 315 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 4 people were held in Cimarron County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 342 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 8.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
2 school districts have their office in Cimarron County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $15,969 per student, plus $534,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $709,000 federal. Long-term debt: $69,000.
Spent $1.3 million — $1.3 million to run schools, about $14,022 per student, plus $8,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $498,000 local (mostly property tax), $730,000 state, $154,000 federal. Long-term debt: $70,000.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Cimarron County about $9.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
90 bridges in Cimarron County: 48 in good condition, 41 fair, and 1 poor (1.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| 1334C over CURRUMPA CREEK · built 1967 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-178,728 of work in Cimarron County in fiscal 2025, about $-78 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Oklahoma are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Cimarron County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Cimarron County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Dallam County, TX (32 mi) · Baca County, CO (39 mi) · Sherman County, TX (47 mi) · Morton County, KS (49 mi) · Union County, NM (56 mi) · Texas County (57 mi).