Hickory Oklahoma Map

About Hickory, Oklahoma

Hickory is a locality in Murray County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 120. The population density is 104.0 people per km². Hickory is located at 34.5568°N, 96.8603°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 74865.

Hickory, Oklahoma, exhales a quiet breath of prairie land, a place where the horizon stretches wide and the sky holds dominion. It lies 53.4 miles south of Shawnee, OK (from Shawnee, OK: bearing 176°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east-north-east of Sulphur. The terrain here is a gentle sprawl of rolling hills, a subtle rise and fall that hints at the ancient forces that shaped this country, now softened by the patient work of wind and water. Patches of scrub oak and mesquite cling to the slopes, their gnarled branches reaching out like weathered hands, while the open fields, when the sun catches them just right, gleam with the muted gold of dry grass, a humble, enduring beauty that asks for little but offers much to the observant eye. The air itself carries a certain stillness, broken only by the distant lowing of cattle or the whisper of wind through the sparse trees, a palpable sense of space that can both free the spirit and ground the soul. The story of Hickory is written in the soil and the tenacity of its people, a narrative woven from the threads of agriculture and a deep-rooted connection to the land. This is country that remembers the plow, where the economy has long been tied to the bounty of the earth, though the rhythms have shifted over time. The wide-open spaces that define Hickory also speak of a history where resilience was a daily necessity, a characteristic that still seems to linger in the character of the place. There are no grand monuments here, no towering edifices, but a quiet dignity that resonates in the weathered paint of a farmhouse and the steady gaze of those who call Hickory home, a testament to lives lived in earnest under a vast Oklahoma sky.

About This Hickory Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hickory, Oklahoma — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 34.556756, -96.860291. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Hickory and Murray County.

Detailed location data for Hickory includes the ZIP code (74865), telephone area code (918), county seat of Murray County (Sulphur), and school district assignment (Roff Public Schools). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Hickory is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.