Pershing is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Osage County Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States: * Osage County, Kansas * Osage County, Missouri * Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County () is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Ok ...

Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in eastern Osage County, on the south side of

Oklahoma State Highway 11 State Highway 11 (abbreviated SH-11) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs in an irregular west-to-east path across the northern part of the state, from U.S. Highway 281 (US-281) north of Alva to Interstate 244 Interstate 244 ( ...

, which leads east and south to

Barnsdall Barnsdall is a city in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,034. History The community was founded in 1905 and originally named Bigheart, for the Osage Chief James Bigheart. It was ...

and to the outskirts of

Tulsa Tulsa ( ) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tul ...

. In the other direction, Highway 11 leads west and north to

Pawhuska Pawhuska ( Osage: 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘, ''hpahúska'', lit.: ''White Hair''; Chiwere: ''Paháhga'') is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,984 ...

, the Osage

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Demographics

Education

Most of the CDP is in

Barnsdall Public Schools The Barnsdall Independent School District, also known as Barnsdall Public Schools (BPS), is a school district based in Barnsdall, Oklahoma United States. It includes an elementary school and a secondary (middle-high) school. It includes Barn ...

, while a part of the CDP is in

Pawhuska Public Schools Pawhuska Public Schools (PPS) is a school district headquartered in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It includes Pawhuska, Nelagoney, and a small portion of Pershing. David Cash was the superintendent until his retirement in 2023. Cash continued to work f ...

References

Census-designated places in Osage County, Oklahoma Census-designated places in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub