Caney, OK (CDP)

Caney is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States, within the Cherokee Nation. The 2020 census counted 120 residents. Caney was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in southeastern Cherokee County, on a ridge between two arms of Tenkiller Ferry Lake: Caney Creek to the north and Dry Creek to the south. Caney's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Oklahoma setting. The local scoop is how Caney's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The CDP is bordered to the north by Tenkiller, to the east by Barber, and to the south by Dry Creek. Caney includes the western tip of the CDP touches the Illinois River in Tenkiller Ferry Lake.