Yukon, Oklahoma Yukon, Oklahoma Yukon's Best Flour mill, positioned on U.S.
Yukon's Best Flour mill, positioned on U.S.
Location of Yukon, Oklahoma Location of Yukon, Oklahoma Yukon, Oklahoma is positioned in the US Yukon, Oklahoma - Yukon, Oklahoma Yukon is a town/city in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States.
It is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
The populace was 22,709 at the 2010 census. Founded in the 1890s, the town was titled in reference to a gold rush in Yukon Territory, Canada, at the time.
Historically, Yukon served as an urban center for region farmers and the site of a large milling operation.
Morrison. Taylor and Morrison had acquired the territory in the 1889 territory run. Spencer also bought two quarter sections south of Main Street from Joseph Carson and his sister, Josephine. Spencer and his brother, Lewis, titled the town after the Yukon Territory of Canada, where a gold rush was booming at the time.
The first homes and businesses were positioned on the north side of Spencer Avenue (now Main Street) and present Fourth and Fifth streets. The Canadian County Courier reported on April 1, 1891, that the town/city had 25 homes, one bank, two real estate offices, two restaurants, a lumber yard, a hardware store, a grocery, a livery stable, two saloons, a blacksmith shop, a printing office, a barber shop, and a second barber shop "about completed." The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company laid its track, causing the abandonment of Frisco, which had a populace of 1,000 at the time. Beginning in about 1898, Yukon began to attract immigrants from Bohemia.
The town voted to incorporate in 1901 and voted to add water works, sewer, and electricity from the foundry in 1910. Businesses remained clustered on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth, until the 1920s, when they began to locate in other parts of the town. The interurban was assembled from Oklahoma City to El Reno in 1911. It closed in 1940. Paved roads didn't arrive until the assembly of State Highway 66 in 1926. Yukon thrived as the urban center for region farmers and had an organized library by 1905 and a dedicated library building in 1927. A small milling operation, the Yukon Mill and Grain Company, opened in 1893 and interval to shipping flour and feeds throughout the south and exporting them overseas by 1915. The milling operation was owned by the Kroutil and Dobry families, but the Dobry family assembled their own foundry and parted ways with the Kroutils in the 1930s. The mills were sold to larger corporations; Shawnee Mills purchased the Yukon Mill and Grain Company and Mid-Continent purchased the Dobry Mills. Paying homage to that history, the students of Yukon High School are known as "Millers", and their mascot is "The Miller Man".
From a populace of 830 in 1907, Yukon interval to 1,990 by 1950. By 1960, the populace registered at 3,076. Oklahoma City took in nearly all of the territory around Yukon amid the 1960s.
Yukon is a suburb of Oklahoma City, and it is positioned in the central portion of the east side of Canadian County, Oklahoma at 35 30 8 N 97 44 57 W (35.502255, -97.749120). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 26.3 square miles (68.1 km2), of which 26.2 square miles (67.9 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.21%, is water. The town is traversed by historic Route 66 and state highways 4 and 92.
Downtown Oklahoma City is 16 miles (26 km) to the east.
As of the 2010 census, there were 22,709 citizens , 8,744 homeholds, and 6,390 families residing in the city. The populace density was 880 citizens per square mile (340/km ). There were 9,231 housing units at an average density of 315.8 per square mile (121.9/km ). The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 87.8% white, 1.2% African American, 3.7% Native American, 2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.5% from other competitions, and 3.7% from two or more competitions. Hispanic or Latino of any race made up 4.9% of the population. Yukon's sister town/city is Krnov in the Czech Republic.
The Yukon Public Schools precinct includes 11 schools, served a improve of 36,938 citizens , and encompasses 66.10 square miles of territory and 2.18 square miles of water. The school precinct offers pre-school through secondary school education. The school served 7,209 students in the 2009-2010 school year. a b "2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
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"Oklahoma: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
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United States Enumeration Demographic Profile of Yukon, Oklahoma, at American Fact - Finder Archived September 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
2007-2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Yukon, Oklahoma, at American Fact - Finder Archived September 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
USA.com Profile of Yukon Public Schools (accessed September 5, 2013) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yukon, Oklahoma.
City of Yukon official website Stage Door Theatre of Yukon, former District School building and Historic Society Municipalities of the Greater Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area Municipalities and communities of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States
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