Alex Oklahoma Map

About Alex, Oklahoma

Alex is a locality in Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 482. The population density is 28.0 people per km². Alex is located at 34.9148°N, 97.7786°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Alex is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 73002, 73011.

Alex anchors itself to the flat, expansive plains of Oklahoma, where the earth reveals a deep, iron-rich red that seems to stain the very light of the evening. It lies 13.1 miles southeast of Chickasha, OK (from Chickasha, OK: bearing 137°T), and is situated 16.9 miles south-southwest of Blanchard. The Washita River carves a deliberate path less than a mile from the center of Alex, its waters pulling the humidity from the soil to nourish the dense, tangled thickets of the Cross Timbers that fringe the horizon. To the west, the distant silhouette of the South Hills provides a jagged, hazy boundary against the sky, while the wind moves constantly across the open fields, turning the tall grasses into a restless, undulating sea of muted gold and brown. On quieter afternoons, the stillness is broken only by the distant hum of machinery or the sudden, sharp cry of a hawk circling above the quiet roads.

History in Alex remains tethered to the slow pulse of agriculture and the persistent, subsurface legacy of the oil industry that defined much of the region’s early twentieth-century growth. Men once arrived here seeking fortune in the black gold beneath the prairie, leaving behind rusted derricks that now stand like skeletal sentinels amidst the working wheat fields and cattle pastures. Residents often venture toward the Little Washita Site 2 Reservoir for a reprieve from the heat, or find a different sort of quietude in the expansive, wilder reaches of the Grady County Wildlife Management Area. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, dictated by the planting and the harvest, where the community remains defined by its connection to the rugged, unyielding soil and the memory of those who first broke the ground.

About This Alex Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alex, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.914792, -97.778649. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Alex includes the ZIP code (73002, 73011), telephone area code (405, 572), county seat of Grady County (Chickasha), and school district assignment (Alex Public Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.