Explore Byron, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Byron, 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 Byron.
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 | Byron |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County | Alfalfa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.901972 |
| Longitude | -98.29396 |
| Population | 37 |
| Density | 56.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 73722 |
| Area Code | 405 |
| County Seat | Cherokee |
| School District | Burlington Public Schools |
Byron emerges from the flat, iron-rich earth of the Oklahoma plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a wire pulled across the sky. It lies 41.9 miles north-northwest of Enid, OK (from Enid, OK: bearing 327°T), and is situated 21.7 miles east-northeast of Alva. The landscape here is defined by the persistent, dry whistle of the wind as it brushes against the Medicine Lodge River, which meanders through the scrubland just two miles from the center of the settlement. To the south, the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge offers a vast, shimmering expanse of salt flats that transform the light at dusk into a pale, bruised violet, casting long shadows over the dormant fields. Far to the south, the vague, jagged outline of Red Hill interrupts the otherwise relentless flatness of the plains, serving as a silent, distant landmark for those who measure the world by the reach of their own gaze.
Byron functions as a quiet sentinel of the agricultural cycle, its economy tethered to the slow, golden transformation of wheat that defines the seasons. The history of the region is written in the deep red soil and the lingering memory of the indigenous nations who first traversed these high, grassy swells long before the arrival of modern fences. Daily life moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, dictated by the demands of the harvest and the maintenance of machinery that clatters faintly against the silence of the afternoon. While the residents might venture toward Upper Dog Pond when the heat of the summer sun turns the air into a shimmering haze, the spirit of the place remains anchored to the land, an enduring testament to a life practiced in the open, unadorned space of the high plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Byron, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.901972, -98.29396. 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 Byron includes the ZIP code (73722), telephone area code (405), county seat of Alfalfa County (Cherokee), and school district assignment (Burlington Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |