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Alex Oklahoma Map

Explore Alex, Oklahoma, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Alex, Oklahoma

How to Use This Alex, Oklahoma Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Alex, Oklahoma. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Oklahoma or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Alex.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Alex
State	Oklahoma (OK)
County	Grady County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	34.914792
Longitude	-97.778649
Population	482
Density	28.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	73002, 73011
Area Code	405, 572
County Seat	Chickasha
School District	Alex Public Schools

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Grady County Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 206° SW
Shady Grove Park (Local Park) — 11.2 mi, 122° SE
Griffith Park (Local Recreation) — 11.3 mi, 115° SE
Chickasha Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 11.4 mi, 317° NW
Shannon Springs Park (Local Park) — 11.9 mi, 309° NW
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 12.2 mi, 309° NW
Greek Theatre (Theatre) — 12.7 mi, 309° NW
Chickasha Leg Lamp (Public Artwork) — 12.8 mi, 317° NW
Lake Louis Burtschi Public Fishing Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.3 mi, 284° W
Cleveland County Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 27.1 mi, 045° NE
Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 27.5 mi, 043° NE
Amy Elizabeth Boe Garden (Monument) — 27.7 mi, 042° NE
Noble Auditorium (Theatre) — 28.0 mi, 055° NE
Bear Stadium (Stadium) — 28.1 mi, 055° NE
The Depot (Arts Centre) — 28.4 mi, 042° NE
Sutton Wilderness (State Recreation Area) — 29.7 mi, 041° NE
Lake Thunderbird State Park (State Park) — 32.0 mi, 052° NE
Mustang Mosaics (Gallery) — 32.4 mi, 008° N
U.S. Army Artillery Museum (Museum) — 38.5 mi, 244° SW
Fort Sill (Museum) — 38.5 mi, 244° SW
Oklahoma National Stockyard (Attraction) — 39.2 mi, 018° N
United States Army Air Defense Artillery Museum (Museum) — 39.6 mi, 245° SW
Wheeler Ferris Wheel (Attraction) — 39.7 mi, 021° N
Oklahoma River Cruises (Attraction) — 40.6 mi, 022° N
Exchange Sheridan Theater (Cinema) — 40.6 mi, 244° SW
Oklahoma Film Exchange (OKX) (Cinema) — 40.7 mi, 021° N
Fort Cobb State Park (State Park) — 41.0 mi, 295° NW
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 43.3 mi, 254° W · 118k acres
Chickasaw National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 51.0 mi, 124° SE · 15k acres
Wichita Mountains Wilderness North Mountain Unit (Wilderness Area) — 51.0 mi, 262° W · 9,786 acres

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