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Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
Erick is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a business route from Interstate 40). The town is also served by State Highway 30. Erick is the second-closest Oklahoma settlement to the Texas border on US 66 or I-40 (Texola is at the border, seven miles to the west).
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In Oklahoma, the portions west of Oklahoma City that had not been rerouted onto I-40 became business loops of I-44 through Sayre, Elk City, Clinton, and El Reno. The still-independent route, starting at US-81 in southeastern El Reno, became SH-66 , using surface streets except through Oklahoma City and Tulsa , where Route 66 had been rerouted ...
America is a ghost town [1] in southeastern McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. It was located 7 miles southeast of Haworth . [ 2 ] The town was named after America Stewart, wife of Tom Stewart, a local resident.
A Santa Fe rail spur between Three Sands and Marland, Oklahoma was abandoned in August 1942. [5] [6] The high school closed in 1946; the last retail establishment, a grocery store, closed in 1951; and, the final blow was the closure of the post office in 1957. [1] The settlement joined the ranks of Kay/Noble Counties' oil-boom ghost towns. [7]
In October 1922, it was announced that Agawam, located on the main line of the Rock Island Railroad, would become a shipping point for a gas field in Grady County, due to its location: four miles from the Oklahoma Gas Company's pumping station. [5] Agawam was described as a "new oil town" in 1923, when an auction of town lots was held. [6]
Dilworth was one of the many oil boomtowns created in Kay County, Oklahoma during the early part of the 20th Century. [1] It was located about 10.5 miles northwest of Newkirk, the county seat, or about 14 miles by present-day roads. [2] [3] While it is now designated a Populated Place, it is considered a ghost town. [2] [1] [4]