Humphreys is an unincorporated community in southeast Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located 7.5 miles southeast of Altus and six miles northeast of Tipton in adjacent Tillman County.Oklahoma Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 49 Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd ed., 1987, p.121. The old Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad passes through the community.Tipton, OK, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1964 (1978 rev.) The community was founded in 1909 and named after a local rancher, James Humphreys.
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