Temple Oklahoma Map

About Temple, Oklahoma

Temple is a locality in Cotton County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 862. The population density is 258.8 people per km². Temple is located at 34.2720°N, 98.2359°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Temple is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 73568.

Temple emerges from the expanse of the southern plains as a quiet settlement defined by the relentless, restless wind that scours the red dirt of the horizon. It lies 22.5 miles southwest of Duncan, OK (from Duncan, OK: bearing 225°T), and is situated 7.3 miles southeast of Walters. The landscape surrounding Temple is a vast, open theater of earth and sky, where the light at dusk bleeds into a bruised violet across the flat, sun-baked fields. To the north, the distant outline of Pumpkin Ridge anchors the view, a faint serrated edge against the wide Oklahoma sky. Nearby, the water of Temple Lake catches the daylight in a mirror of stillness, while the banks of Whiskey Creek trace a thin, darkened vein through the tall grass, offering a modest sanctuary for the local flora.

Agriculture and the long, deep memory of the land provide the pulse for daily life here, where the economy remains tethered to the harvest and the quiet cycles of rural industry. Travelers passing through might find a deeper stillness in the Waurika Wildlife Management Area, a stretch of land that preserves a sense of the untamed prairie that once defined this territory. The character of the place is built upon the endurance of those who work the soil, a rhythm slow and deliberate, mirroring the seasonal turning of the wheat and the steady persistence of the people. It is a place where the history of the plains is written not in stone, but in the way the air holds the scent of dry earth after a storm, and in the unadorned resilience of a life lived under an immense, unblinking dome of blue.

About This Temple Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Temple, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.272034, -98.235878. 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 Temple includes the ZIP code (73568), telephone area code (405), county seat of Cotton County (Walters), and school district assignment (Temple 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.