Phillips Oklahoma Map

About Phillips, Oklahoma

Phillips is a locality in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 122. The population density is 89.7 people per km². Phillips is located at 34.5059°N, 96.2197°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Phillips is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74538.

Phillips emerges from the red earth of Oklahoma as a quiet collection of remnants where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the ground itself. It lies 32.0 miles southeast of Ada, OK (from Ada, OK: bearing 125°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north-northwest of Atoka. The landscape around Phillips is defined by a persistent, dry heat that pulls the color from the grasses, leaving them a pale, brittle gold that shivers when the wind moves across the plains. Only a mile away, the quiet passage of Brier Creek carves a thin, shaded vein through the brush, offering a brief respite from the sun-drenched expanse. To the west, the distant shadow of Big Prairie Ridge marks the edge of the world, while the waters of Caney-Coon Creek Site 1 Reservoir sit still and glassy under the afternoon light, reflecting the long, violet shadows cast by the encroaching dusk.

Phillips remains a ghost of the state’s industrial ambition, a place once defined by the deep, rhythmic pulse of oil extraction that drew men to labor in the heat of the Cross Timbers. The industry has receded, leaving behind a stillness that settles over the empty lots and weathered structures, a testament to the cycles of prosperity and abandonment that characterize this region of Choctaw lands. Today, the pace of life is dictated by the slow shift of light and the occasional silence that lingers after a vehicle passes through the center of the grid. Those who seek the wilder edges of the landscape often turn toward the Atoka Wildlife Management Area, ten miles distant, where the scrub oak and tangled thickets remain undisturbed by the ambitions of the past. Life in Phillips is measured not by the clock, but by the way the wind carries the scent of dry soil and the memory of a time when the earth beneath these fields yielded a different kind of wealth.

About This Phillips Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Phillips, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.505926, -96.21972. 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 Phillips includes the ZIP code (74538), 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.