Explore Ratliff City, Oklahoma, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ratliff City, Oklahoma. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Oklahoma or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ratliff City.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Ratliff City |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County | Carter County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.448974 |
| Longitude | -97.50947 |
| Population | 64 |
| Density | 22.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 73481 |
| Area Code | 405 |
| County Seat | Ardmore |
| School District | Fox Public Schools |
Ratliff City occupies a wide stretch of Oklahoma terrain where the earth displays the deep, iron-rich pigment of red dirt and the horizon is defined by the persistent, dry movement of the wind. It lies 25.8 miles east of Duncan, OK (from Duncan, OK: bearing 98°T), and is situated 15.0 miles north of Healdton. The landscape here is characterized by the low-slung, textured sprawl of the Cross Timbers, where scrub oak and native grasses struggle against the heat to hold the soil in place. Beyond the immediate flatlands, the distant silhouette of the Arbuckle Mountains asserts itself against the sky, providing a jagged, blue-gray anchor to the view. Flag Branch carves a modest, seasonal path through the brush just two miles from the center, its presence marked more by the density of the surrounding thickets than by the volume of its flow. At dusk, the light here loses its harsh intensity, turning the dust motes into a fine, suspended gold that settles over the fields with a quiet, heavy stillness.
Ratliff City exists as a quiet monument to the persistent influence of the oil industry, which has long dictated the rhythm of commerce and the skeletal geometry of the surrounding fields. Derricks stand as solitary, rusted sentinels across the plains, remnants of a boom that once brought a frantic, transient vitality to this corridor of Indian Territory. Life here remains tied to the extraction of resources and the slow, cyclical demands of land management, far removed from the recreational bustle of Turner Falls Park or the stillness found near the Oknoname 137058 Reservoir. Residents of Ratliff City often look toward the more sheltered topography of Redoak Hollow when the prairie winds grow too sharp, finding a localized refuge in the subtle depressions of the earth. The community maintains a character forged by isolation and the steady, unadorned labor required to sustain a livelihood in a region where the history of the land—the echoes of Comanche and Choctaw passage—remains etched into the very soil beneath one's boots.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ratliff City, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.448974, -97.50947. 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 Ratliff City includes the ZIP code (73481), telephone area code (405), county seat of Carter County (Ardmore), and school district assignment (Fox Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |