Lehigh Oklahoma Map

About Lehigh, Oklahoma

Lehigh is a locality in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 272. The population density is 66.8 people per km². Lehigh is located at 34.4693°N, 96.2164°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lehigh is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74556.

Lehigh claims a quiet authority over the red-stained earth of the plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut under an expansive, unyielding sky. It lies 33.7 miles southeast of Ada, OK (from Ada, OK: bearing 129°T), and is situated 7.6 miles northwest of Atoka. The landscape here is defined by the persistent presence of Coal Creek, which carves a modest path through the brush just a mile away, its banks marked by the scrub oak and tangled thickets characteristic of the Cross Timbers. To the west, the land rises into the distant, hazy silhouette of Limestone Ridge, a jagged reminder of the geological depth that anchors this corner of the state. When the sun retreats at dusk, the light catches the iron-rich dust in the air, turning the fields into a bruised shade of violet that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the wind has died down.

Lehigh bears the heavy, indelible imprint of its coal-mining origins, a history written in the abandoned shafts and the persistent, low-slung architecture of a place that once thrived on the bounty beneath its soil. The economic pulse has slowed since the height of the extraction era, yet the resilience of the Choctaw and early settler roots remains palpable in the deliberate, measured pace of daily existence. Residents look toward the Atoka Wildlife Management Area for a sense of untamed space, while the nearby Clear Canyon offers a rugged, sheltered topography that contrasts with the open scrubland. Life in Lehigh is governed by the turning of the seasons and the quiet commerce of the road, a place where the memory of the labor that built it persists in the way the shadows lengthen across the gravel streets.

About This Lehigh Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lehigh, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.469259, -96.216385. 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 Lehigh includes the ZIP code (74556), telephone area code (918), county seat of Coal County (Coalgate), and school district assignment (Coalgate 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.