Murphy, OK

Murphy is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 140 residents. Murphy is in southern Mayes County, bordered to the east by Ballou and Cedar Crest, and to the southwest by Fort Gibson Lake on the Neosho River. Murphy is 7 miles southwest of Locust Grove, the town whose post office serves Murphy. The short version is that Murphy carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Murphy: its past remains attached to the places people use now.