Dacoma, Oklahoma

Dacoma is in Woods County, which is five counties east of Colorado and touches south Kansas.

Dacoma’s 2010 population was 107, a drop of 41 from the 2000 census.

The Oklahoma Historical Society notes: “The community is located on land homesteaded by two African Americans, Nathan Dedman and Frank Kinberling. The town was platted, with a locust tree marking each block's corner, in August 1904. The original post office name of Zula was changed to Dacoma, a combination of Dakota and Oklahoma, in October 1904. Postal officials used a ‘c’ instead of the proposed ‘k’ in the name.”

http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=DA001

Dacoma’s population reached 332 in 1930 and declined thereafter. Many towns in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas saw peak populations that year, and then declined during the Great Depression and when population shifted to defense factories during World War II.

Woods County population peaked in 1910, at 17,567, the first year of a federal census in the new state of Oklahoma. The nearest the county would again get to that number was in 1930, when census takers counted 17,005 residents. Population has declined since.

Here is a satellite image of Dacoma and nearby:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.664583,-98.5561346,3874m/data=!3m1!1e3

Lots of farmland and quite few oil wells.

In Dacoma, you can see a long way.