Hunter Oklahoma Map

About Hunter, Oklahoma

Hunter is a locality in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 145. The population density is 238.2 people per km². Hunter is located at 36.5636°N, 97.6612°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hunter is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74640.

Hunter rises from the flat, expansive plains like an island of grain silos and quiet streets anchored against the persistent, wandering wind. It lies 16.7 miles northeast of Enid, OK (from Enid, OK: bearing 46°T), and is situated 33.4 miles west-southwest of Ponca City. The horizon in every direction draws a sharp, unbroken line where the pale earth meets the vast, shifting sky, a space where the light of dusk turns the dust into a fine, copper-colored haze. Three miles away, the banks of Red Rock Creek carve a subtle, wandering path through the scrub, offering a thin ribbon of shade and stillness that contrasts with the relentless openness of the surrounding prairie. While the distant silhouette of Red Hill marks the far edge of the imagination, the immediate landscape remains defined by the deep, iron-rich soil and the grasses that ripple in rhythmic waves, bowing to the pressure of the air as it rolls across the open expanse.

Hunter persists as a quiet testament to the labor of those who broke the sod of these former territories, where the collective memory of the Osage and surrounding nations lingers in the very depth of the loam. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of the wheat harvest and the intermittent pulse of the oil industry, with rusted pump jacks occasionally punctuating the farmland like skeletal sentinels of a subterranean wealth. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, far removed from the frantic pace of larger centers, and those who seek a moment of respite often travel toward the quiet trails of Berry Park, fifteen miles distant. In the stillness of a summer afternoon, when the sun hangs heavy and bright, the character of Hunter reveals itself not in noise or spectacle, but in the enduring steadiness of its people and the way the land holds onto the quiet, honest history of the plains.

About This Hunter Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hunter, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.563643, -97.661163. 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 Hunter includes the ZIP code (74640), telephone area code (918), county seat of Garfield County (Enid), and school district assignment (Pond Creek-Hunter 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.