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Vici / ˈ v aɪ s aɪ / is a town in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 611 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] No information appears on the origins of the town name, but Vici is Latin for “I conquered.”
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Seiling (/ ˈ s i l ˌ ɪ ŋ / SEEL ing) is a city in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 850 at the 2020 census. [5] The town was named in 1899 for Louis Seiling, a local store owner who had acquired a homestead in the Cheyenne-Arapaho land run of April 1892. The Hobson Town and Improvement Company established a town ...
Joseph B. Thoburn and John W. Sharp. History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State, American Guide Series, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74– 82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via ...
The town was named for Amos Leedey, an early settler. [4] The post office opened January 6, 1900, with Amos Leedey as the first postmaster. [4] Leedey became a railroad town when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway (later part of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad) completed a line in from Elk City in 1911, and the town incorporated that same year. [4]
The arrival of the Choctaw Coal and Railway (later the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, subsequently acquired by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) nine miles southwest of Edwards Store led to the relocation of the town to its present site. With close proximity to the railroad, Red Oak became a thriving and prosperous community ...
Oklahoma State Highway 51 passes through the north side of the town, leading east 48 miles (77 km) to Stillwater and west 23 miles (37 km) to Okeene. According to the United States Census Bureau , Hennessey has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.7 km 2 ), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 1.23%, are water.
Shattuck is a town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,249 at the time of the 2020 census , [ 4 ] a change from the 1,356 reported in the 2010 census . [ 5 ]