Byron Oklahoma Map

About Byron, Oklahoma

Byron is a locality in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 37. The population density is 56.7 people per km². Byron is located at 36.9020°N, 98.2940°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Byron is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 73722.

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.

About This Byron Map Page

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).

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.