Tipton Oklahoma Map

About Tipton, Oklahoma

Tipton is a locality in Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 864. The population density is 284.9 people per km². Tipton is located at 34.5029°N, 99.1409°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tipton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 73570.

Tipton emerges from the flat, iron-stained earth of southwestern Oklahoma like a quiet thought held against the vastness of the prairie. It lies 14.4 miles southeast of Altus, OK (from Altus, OK: bearing 130°T), and is situated 10.4 miles northwest of Frederick. The horizon here is an unrelenting line, broken only by the shivering silver of winter wheat or the stiff, skeletal silhouettes of irrigation pivots that drink from the deep aquifers below. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Navajo Mountains haunts the edge of the sky, while the North Fork Red River carves a slow, meandering path just a few miles away, its banks lined with the gnarled, thirsty roots of cottonwoods. The light at dusk settles over the fields in long, bruised purples and golds, turning the red dirt into a glowing embers that seem to hold the day’s heat long after the sun has slipped beneath the plains.

Tipton carries the weight of a frontier history, rooted in the hard-won soil of what was once Indian Territory, where the echoes of Comanche and Kiowa passage still linger in the stillness of the Gist Wildlife Management Area. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest and the unpredictable temperament of the weather, a life governed by the cyclical demands of the grain elevator and the persistent, restless wind. Residents navigate the seasons between the nearby basin of Red Hollow and the quiet, glassy surface of White Lake, finding a steady, unadorned peace in the sparse geometry of the landscape. Life in Tipton moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own isolation, where the silence of the high plains serves as a constant, grounding companion to those who choose to stay.

About This Tipton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tipton, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.502855, -99.140914. 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 Tipton includes the ZIP code (73570), telephone area code (405), county seat of Tillman County (Frederick), and school district assignment (Tipton 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.