Alpha, Oklahoma
unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States
Alpha is an unincorporated community in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. Its altitude is 1165 feet (355 m). The post office was established November 7, 1893, and closed December 14, 1903. The Alpha site is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east of Omega.
The Alpha school district closed in 1947. The Alpha Schoolhouse, the last structure in Alpha, was moved to the Frontier Country Historical Society Museum in Crescent in 2005.
“Alpha, Oklahoma” enters the record as unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alpha, Oklahoma and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4734868. Authority coordinates are 35.870, -98.101. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1165, 1893, 1903 and 1947.
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