Lost City Oklahoma Map

About Lost City, Oklahoma

Lost City is a locality in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 767. The population density is 12.6 people per km². Lost City is located at 36.0006°N, 95.1223°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 74441.

Lost City occupies a quiet expanse of land where the persistent, rhythmic flow of Fourteenmile Creek carves a path through the red clay and limestone soil. It lies 10.6 miles west-northwest of Tahlequah, OK (from Tahlequah, OK: bearing 298°T), and is situated 13.2 miles east of Wagoner. The horizon here is defined by the modest, weathered rise of Butler Hill, which watches over the surrounding prairie as it transitions into the dense, tangled thickets of the Cross Timbers. During the late afternoon, the light softens into a bruised gold, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped away. The air carries the scent of dry grasses and damp earth, a stillness that feels less like an absence of life and more like a deliberate, patient breathing of the landscape itself.

Lost City retains the quiet gravity of a place that remembers its roots in the deep, shifting narratives of Indian Territory. The local economy remains tethered to the land, shaped by the cycles of the seasons and the slow, deliberate work of those who tend to the surrounding plains. A few miles away, the expanse of Fort Gibson Lake and the nearby Fitzgerald-Soldier Creek Site 1 Reservoir provide a different texture to the terrain, offering basins of water that reflect the vast, open Oklahoma sky. Residents often find their way toward the shelter of Wolf Hollow, where the land dips into a cool, shadowed basin that feels entirely removed from the clamor of the wider world. Life here moves with a steady, unforced cadence, grounded by the endurance of the soil and the quiet persistence of a community that has quietly maintained its corner of the plains for generations.

About This Lost City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lost City, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.000647, -95.122306. 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 Lost City includes the ZIP code (74441), telephone area code (918), county seat of Cherokee County (Tahlequah), and school district assignment (Peggs 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.