Alfalfa County, Oklahoma Map
Explore Alfalfa County, Oklahoma with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 11 cities and towns in Alfalfa County below.
Interactive Map of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
| County | Alfalfa |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County Seat | Cherokee |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 36.704598 |
| Longitude | -98.314132 |
| Cities & Towns | 11 |
| Area Codes | 405 |
About Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
Alfalfa County stretches across a landscape defined by the relentless persistence of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, which carves a shallow, meandering path through the northern plains. This terrain is characterized by broad, high-plains expanses that surrender to the sudden, gypsum-rich outcroppings of the Great Salt Plains, a white, crystalline basin that glitters with a stark, blinding intensity under the midday sun. The soil here possesses a deep, oxidized hue, an iron-heavy red that seems to stain the very air during the frequent, high-velocity winds that scour the horizon. To the west, the land flattens into an expansive wheat-growing theater, while the eastern borders transition toward the more broken, shrub-choked transition zones that hint at the heavier timbered regions further toward the center of the state.
Alfalfa County emerged from the transformative land openings that redefined the region at the dawn of the twentieth century, formalizing a jurisdiction that had long served as a corridor for indigenous movement and later, cattle trails. The administrative center was determined through a period of intense civic competition, eventually settling into a town site that mirrored the grid-patterned optimism of the era. The architecture of the local government buildings remains a reminder of that period, constructed with a sturdy, utilitarian gravity that anchored the surrounding agricultural settlements to a central point of commerce and law. These early residents grappled with a climate that demanded resilience, transforming a frontier that had once been part of the vast, shifting territories of the Cherokee and Osage into a landscape segmented by fences and section lines.
Life in the county maintains a quiet, industrial focus on the rhythms of the grain harvest and the extraction of energy resources from the subsurface layers. The economy persists through the meticulous management of wheat fields that turn from emerald green to a parched, metallic gold as the summer deepens. At dusk, the light stretches thin and amber across the low-slung machinery of oil pumps, which move with a slow, mechanical pulse that seems to pace the stillness of the evening. The local identity is tethered to the vastness of the sky, which dominates the visual field and renders the human presence small but essential. It is a region where the texture of existence is determined by the wind and the soil, creating a community that measures time by the seasonal cycles of planting and the steady, unceasing extraction of the earth’s hidden wealth.
Cities and Towns in Alfalfa County
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About This Alfalfa County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma alongside links to detailed street maps for 11 cities and towns. The county seat is Cherokee. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
