Population 2010 census, 138,
an increase of five over 2000 census. The greatest population was 460, in 1920.
Lowest was 99 in 1990.
Racial/ethnic numbers, 2000
census: 60% white; 33% native American; 6% Hispanic of Latino of any race.
Poverty rate was 24% for
families; 34% for the overall population; 40% of younger than 18; and 62% of
older than 64.
For every woman 18 and older,
there were 90 men.
Hanna is in McIntosh County.
“The rich farmland just north of the South
Canadian River attracted Hanna's first residents. Cotton reigned as the most
abundant crop, and at one time five cotton gins operated at full capacity. In
1903 construction of the Fort Smith and Western Railroad reached Hanna on its
expansion from Fort Smith to Guthrie. A busy depot served the residents. The
railroad company remained solvent in one form or another from 1899 until 1939,
after which it began to dismantle. The railroad bridge between Hanna and Indianola
once served as a toll bridge. Hanna entrepreneurs erected the hotel in
twenty-four hours. Hanna's most populous years were from 1910 to 1920, and the
community had multiples of retail merchants, doctors and lawyers, banks,
newspapers, and cotton gins. The 1920 population stood at 460 but declined by
one hundred in that decade. In 1931 some referred to the town as Oklahoma's
unofficial onion capital because onion farming became important to the
community.”
Before the breakup of the
five independent nations, the area of what is now Hanna was Creek.
The Hanna High School Class
of 2018 had one member – Jared Shepherd. Of his status, Shepherd said, “Obviously,
valedictorian won’t be too hard to get here.”
The sole senior is representative
of most Hanna students, said Cyndi Layman, who works in the school office.
“’Kids
here, if they want something, they go out and go to work and they go get it.’”
“That’s true of the school’s only
senior. He works to pay for things he wants. He took out a loan to buy cattle.
He bought three cows to go along with his horse (Skeeter) and three dogs (Hank,
Blue and Daisy). He also took out a loan to buy a used Chevy truck the day
before school started.”
Hanna
High School has the smallest enrollment in the eastern half of Oklahoma.
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