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Hanson, Oklahoma

census-designated place in Oklahoma, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ108365055 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hanson is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Hanson had a population of 58.

The CDP is in east-central Sequoyah County, at the base of Hanson Mountain, which rises 200 feet (61 m) above the community. Hanson is 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Sallisaw, the Sequoyah county seat, and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Muldrow.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, Hanson had a population of 58. The median age was 34.0 years. 32.8% of residents were under the age of 18 and 24.1% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 141.7 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 129.4 males age 18 and over.

0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.

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“Hanson, Oklahoma” enters the record as census-designated place in Oklahoma, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hanson, Oklahoma and census-designated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108365055. Authority coordinates are 35.436, -94.695. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hanson, Oklahoma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.