Glencoe, OK

Glencoe is a town in northern Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 499 residents. Glencoe was founded in 1899 with the establishment of the Glenco Post Office on the Eastern Oklahoma Railway. The first lots were sold on April 15, 1900. The culture of the town is widely influenced by traditions of the Southern United States. The short version is that Glencoe carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Glencoe: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The town is 7 miles east of Stillwater, the county seat, on State Highway 51 and 8 miles north on State Highway 108. Glencoe is home to a Class A school system.