Explore Canadian, 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 Canadian, 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 Canadian.
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 | Canadian |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County | Pittsburg County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.17732 |
| Longitude | -95.655266 |
| Population | 143 |
| Density | 73.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 74425 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| County Seat | McAlester |
| School District | Canadian Public Schools |
Canadian occupies a landscape of quiet, stubborn endurance where the red earth meets the expansive horizon of the plains. It lies 18.1 miles north-northeast of McAlester, OK (from McAlester, OK: bearing 21°T), and is situated 8.6 miles south-southwest of Eufaula. The air here holds the dry heat of the interior, shimmering above the soil until the sun dips low and casts long, violet shadows across the fields. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Eufaula Lake reflect the changing sky, providing a stillness that contrasts with the persistent, restless wind. To the west, the faint, hazy line of Sandy Ridge marks the limit of the view, a reminder of the tectonic patience that shaped this region. Gibson Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the brush, its banks lined with the gnarled, hardy trees of the Cross Timbers that have claimed this ground for generations.
History persists in Canadian through the lingering memory of the territory, where the legacies of the tribal nations remain etched into the very character of the land. Economic life here moves with the deliberate pace of agricultural cycles and the intermittent rhythm of the energy sector, echoing the industry that long ago transformed these plains. Residents find a familiar solace in the proximity of Arrowhead State Park, where the natural scrub and woodland offer a reprieve from the daily labor of the fields and the low hum of commerce. Life in Canadian follows the seasons, marked by the transformation of the wheat fields from pale green to a deep, harvest gold, under a wide sky that seems to push the town closer to the earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Canadian, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 35.17732, -95.655266. 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 Canadian includes the ZIP code (74425), telephone area code (918), county seat of Pittsburg County (McAlester), and school district assignment (Canadian 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. |