Chance Oklahoma Map

About Chance, Oklahoma

Chance is a locality in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 215. The population density is 13.1 people per km². Chance is located at 36.0675°N, 94.6463°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 74965.

Chance holds its place upon the red-dusted plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut against the wide Oklahoma sky. It lies 20.2 miles east-northeast of Tahlequah, OK (from Tahlequah, OK: bearing 60°T), and is situated 10.9 miles southwest of Siloam Springs. The landscape around Chance is defined by the steady, quiet descent of terrain into the basin of Turkey Hollow, where the earth yields to deeper shadows and a cooler, damp stillness. A mile away, Tyner Creek carves a narrow, winding artery through the soil, its banks thick with brush that turns a brittle, metallic copper when the autumn light hits just right. On the clearest mornings, the faint, jagged silhouette of Bynum Ridge anchors the distant western skyline, a reminder of the vast, fractured geology that defines this interior space.

History in Chance is written in the slow, persistent reclamation of the land by scrub oak and native grasses, long after the initial push of settlement quieted. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the sparse, rugged timber that persists within the reach of the Cookson Hills Fee. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, influenced by the proximity of the Westville Reservoir, which draws the eye toward its flat, silvered surface during the heat of the afternoon. People in Chance navigate a landscape shaped by both the memory of the territory and the modern necessity of a quiet, agrarian endurance, finding a singular, understated beauty in the way the wind leaves patterns in the dust before the sun drops behind the distant, darkened ridges.

About This Chance Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chance, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.067498, -94.646266. 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 Chance includes the ZIP code (74965), telephone area code (918), county seat of Adair County (Stilwell), and school district assignment (Westville 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.