Explore Carmen, 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 Carmen, 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 Carmen.
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 | Carmen |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County | Alfalfa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.578921 |
| Longitude | -98.4623 |
| Population | 360 |
| Density | 91.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 73726 |
| Area Code | 405 |
| County Seat | Cherokee |
| School District | Alva Public Schools |
Carmen sits quietly upon the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the Oklahoma plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled wire. It lies 34.8 miles west-northwest of Enid, OK (from Enid, OK: bearing 292°T), and is situated 19.3 miles southeast of Alva. The earth here is a deep, iron-rich red, grounding the landscape in a somber, ancient color that seems to hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has dipped low. Two miles to the south, the waters of Eagle Chief Creek carve a modest, meandering path through the silt, while the distant, serrated silhouettes of the Glass Mountains provide a jagged counterpoint to the otherwise level sky. Light at dusk possesses a singular quality in Carmen, turning the dust motes into suspended gold and casting long, sharp shadows that emphasize the stark, unadorned geometry of the open country.
Agriculture and the steady, rhythmic extraction of resources define the pulse of the local economy, mirroring the industrious spirit that first took root in this territory. The legacy of the land—once shaped by the movements of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Osage, and Comanche—remains an invisible but heavy presence, felt in the quiet resilience of those who cultivate the surrounding wheat fields. Thirteen miles away, the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge serves as a sanctuary for migratory birds, offering a wilder, shifting perspective on a region otherwise dominated by the labor of the plow and the oil derrick. Life in Carmen moves with a deliberate, measured cadence, governed more by the shifting winds and the seasonal cycles of the harvest than by the frantic pace of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carmen, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.578921, -98.4623. 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 Carmen includes the ZIP code (73726), telephone area code (405), county seat of Alfalfa County (Cherokee), and school district assignment (Alva 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. |