{"id":7056,"date":"2023-08-24T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:05","slug":"lincoln-county-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lincoln-county-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln County, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln County is a county in Oklahoma, United States, about 40 miles northeast of Oklahoma<br \/>\nCity. It had a population of 33,458 at the 2020 census, an estimated 35,278 by 2025, and covers<br \/>\n966 square miles (2,500 km2) centred near 35\u00b042\u2032N 96\u00b053\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler is the county seat; its postal code is 74834. The county holds 3 cities, 10<br \/>\nincorporated towns and 8 unincorporated communities, and it runs on Central Time. Its FIPS code<br \/>\nis 40081.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Lincoln County<\/h2>\n<p>Lincoln County has 21 named places on record: 3 cities, 10 incorporated towns, 7<br \/>\nunincorporated communities and one ghost town. Oklahoma has no civil townships, so the table<br \/>\nbelow drops that column. Unincorp. covers crossroads communities with no local government of<br \/>\ntheir own, including Avery, listed by the U.S. Geological Survey as a ghost town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Chandler<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>2,858<\/td>\n<td>74834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stroud<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>2,719<\/td>\n<td>74079<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Prague<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>2,356<\/td>\n<td>74864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Meeker<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>1,004<\/td>\n<td>74855<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Davenport<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>809<\/td>\n<td>74026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wellston<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>679<\/td>\n<td>74881<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Carney<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>545<\/td>\n<td>74832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Agra<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>311<\/td>\n<td>74824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tryon<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>378<\/td>\n<td>74875<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Warwick<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>164<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sparks<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>122<\/td>\n<td>74869<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kendrick<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>87<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fallis<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Midlothian<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Parkland<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rossville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arlington<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jacktown<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Payson<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Willzetta<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Avery<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stroud is a genuine straddler: its city limits reach across the Creek&ndash;Lincoln county<br \/>\nline, and the 2,719 figure above is citywide, not Lincoln County&#8217;s share alone. A dozen<br \/>\nolder names once attached to this county in local records &mdash; Anderson, Clifton, Dudley,<br \/>\nEmsey, Fowler, Ingram, Merrick, Midway, Soonerville, South Village and Wildhorse among them<br \/>\n&mdash; return no trace in the Census Gazetteer, USGS Geographic Names Information System or<br \/>\ncurrent county records, so they are left off this list rather than repeated on a guess.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>74834 &mdash; Chandler (also serves county government offices and the surrounding rural<br \/>\nroutes)<\/li>\n<li>74079 &mdash; Stroud<\/li>\n<li>74864 &mdash; Prague<\/li>\n<li>74855 &mdash; Meeker<\/li>\n<li>74026 &mdash; Davenport<\/li>\n<li>74881 &mdash; Wellston<\/li>\n<li>74832 &mdash; Carney<\/li>\n<li>74824 &mdash; Agra<\/li>\n<li>74875 &mdash; Tryon<\/li>\n<li>74869 &mdash; Sparks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Warwick, Kendrick and Fallis have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is delivered under a<br \/>\nneighboring town&#8217;s code &mdash; a legacy of closed post offices in each case, not a gap in<br \/>\nthis list.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Lincoln County splits between two landscapes. Its eastern half lies in the Cross Timbers and<br \/>\nthe Sandstone Hills, a belt of scrubby post oak and blackjack woodland running down central<br \/>\nOklahoma; its western half flattens into the Red Bed Plains. Of the county&#8217;s 966 square<br \/>\nmiles, 952 are land and 13 are water, about 1.4 percent &mdash; there is no large natural lake,<br \/>\nand the Deep Fork River, which runs through Sparks and past Meeker on its way toward the<br \/>\nArkansas River, carries most of the county&#8217;s surface water.<\/p>\n<p>Payne County borders Lincoln to the north, Creek County to the northeast, Okfuskee County to<br \/>\nthe southeast, Pottawatomie County to the south, Oklahoma County to the southwest, and Logan<br \/>\nCounty to the northwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/payne-county\/\">Payne County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/creek-county\/\">Creek County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/okfuskee-county\/\">Okfuskee County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/pottawatomie-county\/\">Pottawatomie County<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/oklahoma-county\/\">Oklahoma County<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/logan-county\/\">Logan County<\/a> all border Lincoln<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Lincoln County had a population of 33,458 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts<br \/>\nthe county near 35,278 residents by 2025. Chandler and Stroud are the two largest communities,<br \/>\nfollowed closely by Prague; together the three cities hold well under half the county&#8217;s<br \/>\npopulation, since most residents live outside any incorporated place. Median household income<br \/>\nruns $62,216, below Oklahoma&#8217;s statewide figure of $62,138. Population density works out<br \/>\nto roughly 35 people per square mile of land, low even by rural Oklahoma standards, reflecting a<br \/>\ncounty that is mostly farmland and woodland between two metro areas rather than inside either<br \/>\none.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Retail trade employs the most workers in the county, about 1,800 people, followed by health<br \/>\ncare and social assistance at 1,768 and construction at 1,657. Chandler hosts the headquarters<br \/>\nof National American Insurance Company, a Walmart Supercenter that opened in 2008, and the Ioway<br \/>\nCasino, run by the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma since 2013. Downtown Chandler and downtown Stroud both<br \/>\ntrade on Route 66 heritage &mdash; Stroud&#8217;s Rock Cafe, built from local sandstone during<br \/>\nthe Great Depression, is the building that inspired Sally Carrera&#8217;s design in Pixar&#8217;s<br \/>\n<em>Cars<\/em> after the studio&#8217;s crew visited in 2001. Prague, the county&#8217;s Czech-settled<br \/>\ncity, houses the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague and runs the Kolache Festival<br \/>\nevery first Saturday in May, drawing crowds well beyond the city&#8217;s own 2,356 residents.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Lincoln County opened with the 1891 land run onto former Sac and Fox and Iowa reservation<br \/>\nland. Voters choosing a name for the new county picked Lincoln, honoring President Abraham<br \/>\nLincoln, over the alternatives Sac, Fox and Springer. Chandler, named for Assistant Interior<br \/>\nSecretary George Chandler, became the county seat.<\/p>\n<p>An F5 tornado hit Chandler on 30 March 1897, destroying most of the young town and killing 14<br \/>\nresidents, one of the deadliest disasters in the county&#8217;s history. On 5 November 2011, a<br \/>\nmagnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near Prague, at the time the strongest ever recorded in<br \/>\nOklahoma; the state&#8217;s oil-and-gas-linked seismicity later produced larger quakes elsewhere.<br \/>\nSac and Fox Nation citizen and Olympic champion Jim Thorpe grew up in the county after the land<br \/>\nrun, and the 1996 Olympic torch relay passed through Prague to mark his legacy.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 44 crosses the county&#8217;s western side through Warwick and Stroud. U.S. Routes<br \/>\n62, 177 and 377 and State Highways 18, 66, 99 and 102 also run through the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oklahoma City &mdash; about 40 miles southwest<\/li>\n<li>Tulsa &mdash; about 68 miles northeast<\/li>\n<li>Shawnee &mdash; about 20 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Stillwater &mdash; about 30 miles north<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, roughly 45 miles southwest of Chandler, is the<br \/>\nnearest major commercial airport. Amtrak&#8217;s Heartland Flyer stops at Oklahoma City&#8217;s<br \/>\nSanta Fe Station, the nearest passenger rail service; no passenger line currently runs through<br \/>\nLincoln County itself.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Lincoln County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in east-central Oklahoma, about 40 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, bordered by Payne,<br \/>\nCreek, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma and Logan counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Lincoln County?<\/strong><br \/>\n33,458 at the 2020 census, with a 2025 estimate near 35,278.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Lincoln County?<\/strong><br \/>\n966 square miles (2,500 km2), of which 952 square miles are land and 13 square miles are<br \/>\nwater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Lincoln County?<\/strong><br \/>\nChandler, named for Assistant Interior Secretary George Chandler, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Lincoln County?<\/strong><br \/>\nThirteen incorporated places &mdash; the cities of Chandler, Stroud and Prague, plus the towns<br \/>\nof Agra, Carney, Davenport, Fallis, Kendrick, Meeker, Sparks, Tryon, Warwick and Wellston &mdash;<br \/>\nalong with seven unincorporated communities and the ghost town of Avery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Lincoln County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n74834 for Chandler, 74079 for Stroud, 74864 for Prague, 74855 for Meeker, 74026 for Davenport,<br \/>\n74881 for Wellston, 74832 for Carney, 74824 for Agra, 74875 for Tryon, and 74869 for Sparks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Lincoln County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 1897 Chandler tornado, Route 66 stops in Chandler and Stroud including the Rock Cafe that<br \/>\ninspired Pixar&#8217;s <em>Cars<\/em>, and Prague&#8217;s Czech-heritage Kolache Festival.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/oklahoma\/\">Towns<br \/>\nand villages in Oklahoma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln County is a county in Oklahoma, United States, about 40 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. It had a population of 33,458 at the 2020 census, an estimated 35,278 by 2025, and covers 966 square miles (2,500 km2) centred near 35\u00b042\u2032N 96\u00b053\u2032W. Chandler is the county seat; its postal code is 74834. 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