Map of Ramona town, Oklahoma

Ramona is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 535 at the 2010 census. The town began as Bon-Ton, but changed its name to Ramona in 1899 in honor of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name. The town is one of four communities that makes up the consolidated Caney Valley School District.

Ramona was an oil town and was also a stop for the Santa Fe railroad. When the oil dried up, there was no other industry to support Ramona, so the town began to die out. Very little business remains in the town, aside from a garage, a bank, a medical clinic, a small grocery, and sundry other small businesses. For 30 years the town was under the jurisdiction of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, after the police department disbanded and the Chief of Police was sentenced to prison. Under the leadership of the former mayor, the late Robert Fiddler, the police department was reinstated, the water lines were repaired/replaced, and a grant was accepted from the Cherokee Nation to repave the streets. The town also supplies natural gas service to the Wal-Mart distribution center five miles north of town.

Recently, under the mayoralty of Cyle Miller, the Cherokee Nation opened the Cherokee Casino Ramona off U.S. Route 75 and Road 3200, which is a significant boom to the local economy. This led to Ramona annexing a considerable portion of land and greatly increasing the size of Ramona proper.

Ramona town overview:
Name:	Ramona town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Oklahoma
County:	Washington County
Elevation:	666 ft (203 m)
Total Area:	0.82 sq mi (2.13 km²)
Land Area:	0.82 sq mi (2.12 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	524
Population Density:	639.02/sq mi (246.60/km²)
ZIP code:	74061
Area code:	539/918
FIPS code:	4061700
GNISfeature ID:	1097023

Online Interactive Map

Ramona online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.