Waynoka Oklahoma Map

About Waynoka, Oklahoma

Waynoka is a locality in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 708. The population density is 272.3 people per km². Waynoka is located at 36.5823°N, 98.8798°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Waynoka is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 73860.

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.

About This Waynoka Map Page

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).

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.