Cottonwood Oklahoma Map

About Cottonwood, Oklahoma

Cottonwood is a locality in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 117. The population density is 68.4 people per km². Cottonwood is located at 34.5547°N, 96.2032°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 74948, 74538.

Cottonwood marks the horizon with a quiet, sun-bleached persistence where the red earth yields to the persistent pulse of Camp Creek. It lies 8.6 miles west of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 262°T), and is situated 4.1 miles south-southwest of Roland. The landscape surrounding Cottonwood stretches out in a series of low, scrub-brushed plains that catch the slanted, honeyed light of late afternoon, casting long shadows toward the distant silhouette of Wilson Rock. To the east, the terrain dips into the low-lying basin of Moffett Bottom, where the soil holds a deeper moisture and the air carries the scent of damp loam and wild grasses. The sky here possesses a vast, unencumbered clarity, allowing the weather to gather in heavy, violet-bruised clouds that move across the open expanses without interruption, leaving the land refreshed and smelling of ozone and crushed minerals.

Cottonwood draws its character from the enduring memory of the frontier, where the economy has long traded in the slow, steady labor of the soil and the quiet extraction of the earth’s hidden stores. The rhythm of daily life remains tethered to the seasons, a pace dictated by the agricultural cycles of the neighboring fields and the occasional stillness that descends when the wind dies down. Residents look toward the nearby Robert S. Kerr Lake for respite, finding a communal anchor in the water’s edge that contrasts with the arid, dust-dusted reality of the plains. History here is not written in monuments but is felt in the way the local roads skirt the natural contours of the land, honoring a geography that has been traversed and transformed by those who recognized the singular, rugged value of this Oklahoma reach.

About This Cottonwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cottonwood, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.554699, -96.203235. 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 Cottonwood includes the ZIP code (74948, 74538), telephone area code (918), county seat of Sequoyah County (Sallisaw), and school district assignment (Cottonwood Public School).

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.