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Pryor Creek
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city in and county seat of Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Mayes
- Named after
- Nathaniel Hale Pryor
- Mayor
- Zac Doyle
- Total
- 10.16 sq mi (26.3 km )
- Land
- 10.12 sq mi (26.2 km )
- Water
- 0.04 sq mi (0.10 km ) 0.37%
- Elevation
- 627 ft (191 m)
- Density
- 933.2/sq mi (360.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 74361, 74362
- Area code
- 918/539
- Fips code
- 40-60950
- Website
- www .pryorcreek .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Pryor Creek
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mayes County
- Population
- 9444
- Area
- 25.568365
- Elevation
- 192
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Mayes County
- Official website
- www.pryorok.org
- Households
- 3852
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- Commons category
- Pryor Creek, Oklahoma
- water as percent of area
- 0.3899
- per capita income
- 24018
- postal code
- 74362
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Encyclopedic overview
Pryor Creek or Pryor is a city in and the county seat of Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 9,444 as of the 2020 census.
Originally named Coo-Y-Yah, Cherokee for "place of the huckleberries", it was renamed "Pryor Creek" in 1887 after the local railroad station, which was named for the nearby creek. Due to confusion in distinguishing handwritten mailing addresses to Pryor Creek and Pond Creek, the U.S. Postal Service name for the city was shortened to Pryor, and both names are in common usage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pryor Creek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.