A district with no town attached
There is no City of Deer Creek. There is no city hall, no mayor and no row for it in the census. The name belongs to…
Locations
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City covers 606.48 square miles.
That number does more work than almost anything else you can know about this place before you start looking…
Yukon
Yukon sat on a route before it was a town.
Between 1866 and 1889, cattle moved north out of Texas on the Chisholm Trail, and the herds crossed ground…
Edmond
Edmond was a school before it was a suburb, and it still is one.
That sounds like a line off a chamber of commerce banner, but it holds up as…
Midwest City
The town was the second thing built here
Most towns in this metro started with people and then had something happen to them. A railroad arrived, or…
Moore
When was it built means something different in Moore
Every buyer everywhere asks when a house was built. Usually the question is about the roof, the…
Norman
The one city here that does not orbit Oklahoma City
Every other city on this site gets described by where it sits in relation to Oklahoma City. West…
Mustang
Most towns in this metro were made by a railroad. Mustang had one for fifty years and it never took.
The Oklahoma City and Western Railroad was built…
Piedmont
Piedmont exists because of a railroad that left in 1924.
Dr. E. H. Long founded the town in 1903 in northeastern Canadian County, and in February…
Bethany
Bethany was founded on July 28, 1909, for the specific purpose of not being Oklahoma City.
Rev. C. B. Jernigan established it as a colony for the…
Nichols Hills
Two square miles, and finished
Nichols Hills is about two square miles, and it is done. It was platted once, built out, and kept at that size on…
