Ripley Oklahoma Map

About Ripley, Oklahoma

Ripley is a locality in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 346. The population density is 281.8 people per km². Ripley is located at 36.0178°N, 96.9056°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ripley is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74062.

Ripley emerges from the red-streaked earth of Oklahoma as a quiet sentinel of the plains, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered by the shadow of any distant mountain range. It lies 10.9 miles southeast of Stillwater, OK (from Stillwater, OK: bearing 128°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-northwest of Cushing. The terrain here holds the memory of the Cross Timbers, a landscape defined by scrubby oaks and grasses that shudder under the persistent, dry breath of the wind. Only a mile away, the Cimarron River carves its wandering path through the soil, drawing a dark, sinuous line across the flat expanse that deepens the shadows in the nearby Ghost Hollow. As the sun dips toward the edge of the world, the light catches the iron-rich dust in the air, casting a fleeting, bruised violet glow over the fields that renders the entire basin luminous and strange.

Ripley serves as a reminder of the frontier’s slow transition into the modern age, echoing with the ghosts of the Indian Territory that preceded the arrival of the railroad and the plow. Agriculture and the legacy of oil-derrick country define the economic pulse of the region, where the rhythm of life is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the heavy, fertile silence of the surrounding plains. While the distant Twin Mounds stand as silent observers ten miles to the west, the inhabitants of Ripley find their own quiet recreation at Unknown Park, seven miles away, or seek the cooling reaches of Lake Carl Blackwell, which waits eighteen miles from the center of daily affairs. Life here moves with a deliberate, singular gravity, shaped by the harsh beauty of a landscape that demands both resilience and a steady hand from those who call these red clay roads home.

About This Ripley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ripley, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.017837, -96.905584. 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 Ripley includes the ZIP code (74062), telephone area code (918), county seat of Payne County (Stillwater), and school district assignment (Ripley 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.