Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Payne
- Mayor
- Carla S. Cummings
- Total
- 2.92 sq mi (7.57 km )
- Land
- 2.92 sq mi (7.56 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 902 ft (275 m)
- Density
- 1,097.8/sq mi (423.88/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 405/572
- Fips code
- 40-58150
- Website
- cityofperkins.net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Perkins
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Payne County
- Population
- 3205
- Area
- 7.855966
- Elevation
- 273
- Official website
- www.cityofperkins.net
- Households
- 996
- Dialing code
- 405
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- Commons category
- Perkins, Oklahoma
- postal code
- 74059
- inception
- 1891-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 16334
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Encyclopedic overview
Perkins (Iowa-Oto: Pékinⁿ Chína^i) is a city in southern Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Perkins had a population of 3,205. The name is derived from Walden Perkins, a congressman who helped establish the local post office. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma is headquartered here.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perkins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.