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Oklahoma State Highway 25

highway in Oklahoma

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2172159 ↗
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State Highway 25 (SH-25/OK-25) is a state highway in northeastern Oklahoma with two nonconnecting sections. The northern section runs between the communities of Pyramid Corners and Narcissa, and the southern section runs from east of Grove to the Missouri state line.

Route description

Western section

The western section of SH-25 runs for 8.07 miles (12.99 km) in Craig County and 4.00 miles (6.44 km) in Ottawa County, giving it a total length of 12.07 miles (19.42 km). The route runs due east–west for its entire extent and is mostly level.

Highway 25 begins at the northern section of SH-2 at the unincorporated place of Pyramid Corners in Craig County. The road passes north of Timber Hill en route to Bluejacket. About 4 miles (6.4 km) east of SH-2, the highway reaches Bluejacket and runs through the town, crossing a railroad line just west of the town. Four miles further east, SH-25 passes into Ottawa County. It then continues for exactly four miles further to its terminus at US-59/US-69 in Narcissa.

Eastern section

The eastern section of SH-25 is 5.20 miles (8.37 km) long.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 183-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Oklahoma, State and Highway can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Oklahoma State Highway 25” 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.