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.
Showing posts with label Woods County Oklahoma. Show all posts
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You’ll find Freedom in Oklahoma
As much freedom as The People demand and vote for, anyway.
If you are looking for the town of Freedom, it's in Woods County, in the northwest part of Oklahoma, a couple of counties before the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Hometown Locator ranks Freedom as No. 502 in terms of population (499 for Zip Code 73842 as of July 1, 2016), but No. 95 in per capita income ($34,297) and No. 92 in median household income ($61,016).
Kansas is a few miles north of Freedom. Or, if you’re looking to make a funny – You’ll find Freedom a few miles south of Kansas. Some towns not too far away and still in Oklahoma include Buffalo, Gate, Laverne and May. Appropriately, streets in Freedom include Saddlehorn Drive, Lasso Lane, Dusty Trail, Sand Burr Lane and Tumbleweed Lane. Somebody had a sense of humor.
Rhodes Park, just off Cimarron Pass, has a rodeo arena.
Wikipedia says Freedom’s 2010 population was 289 – 96% white. Eight miles west of Freedom, Cargill has an evaporative salt works. Freedom State Bank started business in 1919 and stayed around until Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. regulators shut it down in June 2014. The bank, investigators said, was “critically undercapitalized” and its capital position was “rapidly deteriorating.” I think that means the bank was running out of money. The bank reopened as a branch of Alva State Bank and Trust.
Area attractions include Alabaster Caverns State Park six miles south and the annual “Freedom Open Rodeo and Cowhand Reunion," which started in 1938.
A search for “Freedom Oklahoma” brings links to queer-support sites. They just can’t leave us alone.
If you are looking for the town of Freedom, it's in Woods County, in the northwest part of Oklahoma, a couple of counties before the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Hometown Locator ranks Freedom as No. 502 in terms of population (499 for Zip Code 73842 as of July 1, 2016), but No. 95 in per capita income ($34,297) and No. 92 in median household income ($61,016).
Kansas is a few miles north of Freedom. Or, if you’re looking to make a funny – You’ll find Freedom a few miles south of Kansas. Some towns not too far away and still in Oklahoma include Buffalo, Gate, Laverne and May. Appropriately, streets in Freedom include Saddlehorn Drive, Lasso Lane, Dusty Trail, Sand Burr Lane and Tumbleweed Lane. Somebody had a sense of humor.
Rhodes Park, just off Cimarron Pass, has a rodeo arena.
Wikipedia says Freedom’s 2010 population was 289 – 96% white. Eight miles west of Freedom, Cargill has an evaporative salt works. Freedom State Bank started business in 1919 and stayed around until Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. regulators shut it down in June 2014. The bank, investigators said, was “critically undercapitalized” and its capital position was “rapidly deteriorating.” I think that means the bank was running out of money. The bank reopened as a branch of Alva State Bank and Trust.
Area attractions include Alabaster Caverns State Park six miles south and the annual “Freedom Open Rodeo and Cowhand Reunion," which started in 1938.
A search for “Freedom Oklahoma” brings links to queer-support sites. They just can’t leave us alone.
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