Bernice Oklahoma Map

About Bernice, Oklahoma

Bernice is a locality in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 422. The population density is 199.7 people per km². Bernice is located at 36.6159°N, 94.9177°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bernice is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74331.

Bernice claims a quiet expanse of the Oklahoma plains, where the horizon stretches wide and the red earth holds the heat of the sun long after the light begins to fail. It lies 18.0 miles south of Miami, OK (from Miami, OK: bearing 187°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west of Grove. The landscape around Bernice is dominated by the sprawling, irregular fingers of Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, which press into the shoreline with a heavy, still permanence. A short distance away, the modest current of Fly Creek moves through the underbrush, carving a path through the limestone and clay that defines the local topography. To the west, the distant outline of Pleasant Ridge provides a jagged, hazy silhouette against the sky, while the nearby terrain dips into the quiet seclusion of Sweetwater Hollow. The air here carries the scent of dry grasses and damp soil, a sensory reminder of the transition from the thick vegetation of the Cross Timbers to the open, wind-swept prairie.

Bernice serves as a gateway to the natural rhythms of the region, anchored by the recreational sanctuary of Bernice State Park, where the land meets the water in a series of gentle, grassy embankments. The local economy finds its footing in the seasonal influx of visitors drawn to the water, balanced against the persistent, slow-turning machinery of land-based industry that has long defined these Cherokee and Osage territories. Life in Bernice moves with a deliberate, unforced cadence, shaped by the memory of the Indian Territory and the steady pulse of a rural economy that relies on the land’s enduring productivity. On quiet evenings, the wind carries the sound of distant engines across the plains, reinforcing the sense that Bernice exists as a steady, grounded point in a landscape defined by its vast, open distance.

About This Bernice Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bernice, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.615911, -94.917736. 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 Bernice includes the ZIP code (74331), telephone area code (918), county seat of Delaware County (Jay), and school district assignment (Cleora Public School).

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.