Gray Horse, Oklahoma

Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States

Gray Horse

Unincorporated community

Gray Horse

Location within the state of Oklahoma

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Coordinates: 36°32′59″N 96°38′52″W﻿ / ﻿36.54972°N 96.64778°W﻿ / 36.54972; -96.64778
Country| United States
State| Oklahoma
County| Osage
Elevation

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| 922 ft (281 m)
Time zone| UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)| UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID| 1093342[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

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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

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There is a fire department.[7]

## References

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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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Municipalities and communities of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States

County seat: Pawhuska

Cities|

* Barnsdall
* Bartlesville‡
* Hominy
* Pawhuska
* Sand Springs‡
* Shidler
* Skiatook‡
* Tulsa‡

Osage County map

Towns|

* Avant
* Burbank
* Fairfax
* Foraker
* Grainola
* Osage
* Prue
* Webb City
* Wynona

CDPs|

* Bowring
* McCord
* Nelagoney
* Pershing
* Whippoorwill

Other
communities|

* Carter Nine
* Gray Horse
* Whizbang

Indian reservation|

* Osage reservation

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‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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