Gray Horse, Oklahoma

Gray Horse
Unincorporated community
Gray Horse is located in Oklahoma
Gray Horse
Gray Horse
Location within the state of Oklahoma
Gray Horse is located in the United States
Gray Horse
Gray Horse
Gray Horse (the United States)
Coordinates: 36°32′59″N 96°38′52″W / 36.54972°N 96.64778°W / 36.54972; -96.64778
CountryUnited States
StateOklahoma
CountyOsage
Elevation
[1]
922 ft (281 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID1093342[1]

Gray Horse is an unincorporated community in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established May 5, 1890, and discontinued December 31, 1931. It was named for Gray Horse (Ko-wah-hos-tsa), an Osage medicine man.

Gray Horse and the surrounding towns of Fairfax and Pawhuska feature prominently in the Osage Murders, which took place in the early 1920s. The towns had grown exceedingly wealthy due to the discovery and drilling of nearby oil fields, and the resident Osage tribe members began to live lifestyles that befitted their newly acquired economic status. This time period and the circumstances and effects of the murders on the community of Gray Horse have been documented in David Grann's 2017 book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

David Grann of The New Yorker described it as, within the Osage Nation, "one of the [...] older settlements."[2]

Education

Gray Horse is zoned to Woodland Public Schools.[3][4]

The Works Progress Administration built a public school in Gray Horse,[5] which opened in 1939.[6] That school closed in 1963.[5] In 2019 the Osage Nation acquired the school building.[6]

Infrastructure

There is a fire department.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gray Horse, Oklahoma
  2. ^ Grann, David (March 1, 2017). "The Marked Woman". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  3. ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Osage County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved January 21, 2024. - Compare to the location of Gray Horse.
  4. ^ "Osage County, Oklahoma". Oklahoma State University. Retrieved January 21, 2024. - Compare the location of the "Grayhorse Indian Reserve" to the school district map.
  5. ^ a b "Gray Horse". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Duty, Shannon Shaw (June 25, 2019). "Osage Nation takes over ownership of historic Grayhorse School". Osage News. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  7. ^ "Fire Departments". Osage County. Retrieved January 29, 2024. Grayhorse Fire Protection INC., [...] 110 Mo-E-Kah-Moie, Fairfax, OK 74637


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