Slick Oklahoma Map

About Slick, Oklahoma

Slick is a locality in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 151. The population density is 7.5 people per km². Slick is located at 35.7770°N, 96.2661°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Slick is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74071.

Slick occupies a stretch of red-earthed plains where the horizon pulls the sky tight against the ground, binding the tall grasses to the deep, iron-rich soil. It lies 17.5 miles south-southwest of Sapulpa, OK (from Sapulpa, OK: bearing 209°T), and is situated 7.9 miles east-southeast of Bristow. Chicken Creek slices through the landscape, a thin, persistent vein of water that carves a quiet path through the terrain as it flows toward Little Deep Fork Creek Site 46 Reservoir. The air here holds the dry, metallic scent of the Cross Timbers, and at dusk, the light turns a bruised violet that seems to settle heavily into the hollows. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Dawson Ridge marks the limit of the world, standing as a silent witness to the wind that constantly reshapes the fine, loose dust of the fields.

Slick emerged from the fervor of the oil boom, a time when the earth surrendered its liquid wealth to the wooden derricks that once crowded the skyline like skeletal fingers. While the frantic pulse of the rigs has long since faded into a steady, agrarian silence, the legacy of that era remains etched in the rusted remnants of machinery half-swallowed by weeds. Life in Slick follows the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons, far removed from the bustle of the distant cities or the quietude of Unknown Park. Residents navigate the days with a measured patience, looking out over the wide, flat expanse of Wildhorse Prairie where the history of Indian Territory is carried in the rustle of the wind through the brush.

About This Slick Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Slick, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 35.77703, -96.266113. 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 Slick includes the ZIP code (74071), telephone area code (918), county seat of Creek County (Sapulpa), and school district assignment (Bristow 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.