Explore Waynoka, 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 Waynoka, 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 Waynoka.
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 | Waynoka |
| State | Oklahoma (OK) |
| County | Woods County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.582256 |
| Longitude | -98.879814 |
| Population | 708 |
| Density | 272.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 73860 |
| Area Code | 580 |
| County Seat | Alva |
| School District | Waynoka Public Schools |
Waynoka occupies a stretch of high, red-earth prairie where the wind carries the dry scent of sun-baked wheat and ancient dust. It lies 30.2 miles east-northeast of Woodward, OK (from Woodward, OK: bearing 70°T), and is situated 19.4 miles southwest of Alva. Dog Creek carves a shallow, winding path through the outskirts, its banks lined with scrub brush that shivers under the relentless push of the open air. To the west, the horizon remains vast and unyielding, save for the faint, jagged silhouette of the Glass Mountains rising like broken teeth against the evening sky. Only a mile away, the shifting, pale dunes of Little Sahara State Park offer a stark contrast to the surrounding plains, a singular expanse of sand that seems to have migrated from a different world to settle amidst the darker, iron-rich soil.
Waynoka maintains a quiet, industrial character forged by the relentless rhythm of the iron rail and the deep, subterranean pulse of the energy sector. The legacy of the Santa Fe Railway remains etched into the local identity, as the tracks once served as the primary artery for the wheat harvests that define the economy of these plains. Beyond the tracks, the occasional stillness of a summer afternoon is punctuated by the distant drone of pump jacks, a reminder that the wealth of the earth here is drawn from beneath the surface. Life moves in accordance with the turning seasons and the light that bleeds across the fields at dusk, turning the landscape into a bruised violet haze. Travelers passing through might glimpse Oknoname 093003 Reservoir in the distance, a quiet mirror of the sky that serves as a reservoir of stillness in a country defined by the movement of grain and the ceaseless, scouring wind.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Waynoka, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 36.582256, -98.879814. 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 Waynoka includes the ZIP code (73860), telephone area code (580), county seat of Woods County (Alva), and school district assignment (Waynoka 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. |