Okemah, Oklahoma Okemah, Oklahoma Location of Okemah, Oklahoma Location of Okemah, Oklahoma State Oklahoma Okemah is the biggest city in and the governmental center of county of Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the place of birth of folk music legend Woody Guthrie.
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, a federally recognized Muscogee Indian tribe, is headquartered in Okemah.
Historically occupied by the Osage and Quapaw, who ceded their lands to the United States by 1825, the region was assigned to the Creek Nation and specifically the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town after Indian Removal of tribes from the Southeast United States in the 1830s.
Okemah was titled after a Kickapoo Indian chief.
In the Kickapoo language, okemah means "things up high," such as highly placed person or town or high ground. In preparation for Oklahoma's statehood, the Dawes Commission was authorized in 1896 to work with the Five Civilized Tribes to enroll their members for allotments of tribal territory to individual homeholds.
Okemah was platted by a group of Shawnee inhabitants in March 1902 on territory belonging to Mahala and Nocus Fixico, full-blood Creek.
The Department of the Interior trustees of territory held by American Indians paid the Fixicos $50 an acre for their land, and gave legal deeds to the purchasers who claimed title.
In the town's first week, the following stores were established: four general merchandise, two hardware, one 5 & 10 cent store, three drugstores, four food, three wagon yards, four lumberyards, three cafes, one bakery, two millineries, four livery barns, three blacksmiths, two dairies, two cotton gins and two weekly newspapers.
Two hotels were quickly put up, including the three-story Broadway hotel, which set the town/city apart as an meaningful town in early Oklahoma.
Okemah was chosen as governmental center of county in a county election held August 27, 1908.
Mural by De - Anna Mauldin, depicting Woody Guthrie and Okfuskee County history, 510 W.
Broadway, Okemah The town's first state-chartered bank began company the day of the opening, April 22, 1902, in a tent on the northwest corner of the present Fifth and Broadway (now City Hall).
Franklin wore the first town/city policeman's badge), vigilantes were active amid Okemah's early years.
Oil derrick in Okemah, Oklahoma, 1922 Okemah is positioned at 35 25 52 N 96 18 20 W (35.430987, -96.305500). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2), of which 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (2.63%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,038 citizens , 1,242 homeholds, and 763 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 69.09% White, 2.37% African American, 22.84% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.46% from other competitions, and 5.13% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.4% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $21,306, and the median income for a family was $26,659.
About 19.5% of families and 25.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 38.6% of those under age 18 and 16.6% of those age 65 or over.
A store building homed one of the first enhance schools, and the other was held in a building where the American Legion building now stands.
Okemah High School attained accreditation in 1912.
It met in the old Noble School building until the building of 1918 was erected.
In the high school complex, the band shop building was erected 1941 and a vocational building in 1948.
Enumeration - Viewer:Okemah, Oklahoma Population The Bankers Magazine - Volume 76 - Page 647 - Google Books Result 1908 - Banks and banking Okemah First National Bank: R.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
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