Grainola, OK

Grainola is a town in northwest Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 31 residents. The main industry of the area is cattle ranching. The town name was invented in March 1910. Grainola is in Shidler Public Schools. The short version is that Grainola carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Grainola: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Grainola was originally named Salt Creek for a nearby tributary of the Arkansas River. Grainola is located 11 miles north of Shidler and 40 miles northwest of Pawhuska.