Custer County, Oklahoma, genealogy & history

Custer County, Oklahoma, genealogy & history & more

The rolling hills and cottonwood lined creeks and valleys of Custer County, once part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, was opened to pioneers in land run of April 19, 1892. Called "G" County, Oklahoma Territory, until county citizens voted November 1896 to name the county "Custer" after General George Armstrong Custer. (Arapaho BEE, June 26, 1896, name proposed; November 6, 1896, election results.)

Placenames of Custer County

Name: section-township-range	Elm 24-15N-18W	Parkersburg 29-12N-17W
Alfalfa 28-12N-17W	Ewing 1-12N-17W	Pixter 32-12N-20W
Arapaho 24&25-13N-17W	Fimple Junction 5-14N-20W	Quartermaster 6-14N-20W
Anthon 33-15N-17W	Foley Junction 11-14N-16W	Ralph Jct. 16-12N-17W
Belle 6-15N-20W	Golden _-15N-14W	Rathbone 14-12N-18W
Bellview 31-13N-15W	Graves 27-14N-16W	Rogers 16-14N-15W
Butler 3-13N-19W	Gyp 13-14N-18W	Samsville 21-14N-19W
Carpenter 31-13N-20W	Hammon 30-14N-20W	Sevenoaks 6-15N-15W
Claude 17-13N-15W	Hampton3-13N-14W	Stafford 4-12N-18W
Clinton 14&15-12N-17W	Hobson 11-13N-18W	Sunset 23-15N-17W
Clinton Junction 11-12N-17W	Independence 32-15N-16W	Swan 21-14N-14
Cochran 24-12N-17W	Indianapolis 35-13N-16W	Taylor 22-11N-15W
Cody 4 -5N-14W	Ivanhoe 27-14N-16W	Thomas 25&26-15N-15W
Colonel 22-15N-20W	Lawter _-12N-14W	Veak 33-14N-18W
Colter 10-12N-20W	Leota 8-15N-15W	Weatherford 7&8-12N-14W
Core 18-14N-14W	Lone Star 14-12N-18W
Crane 8-15N-14N	McClure 34-14N-20W	Barnitz Creek (Coffey Creek)
Custer 27 14N 16W	Moorewood 29-15N-20W	Deer Creek
Dewey 7&8-12N-14W	Nance 24-12N-17W	Quartermaster Creek
Edwardsville 23-13N-19W	Osceola 24-15N-19W	Washita River

Three buildings stood in Clinton the day the town was opened June 3, 1903. The Custer County Chronicle, moved from nearby Weatherford. The Townsite office erected on Frisco Avenue. The First National Bank building built at the corner of Fourth and Frisco.



Arapaho Arrow 1892	1895 Map "G" County	Custer County Tornadoes 1912-1998	Custer County OKGenWeb
Custer County, Oklahoma Pioneers 1892-1907	1915 Map 1972 Map	Tears in the Sand - Sherman Goose interview	Custer County Archives
Arapaho Bee at OkBits	Township Maps at Maps & More	Custer County, OK Genealogy Forum	Rootsweb Resources for Custer County
Trail of 100 Years 1892-1992 Arapaho, OK Centennial Book	Custer County 1996 Profile	Western Plains Weatherford Genealogical Society	Oklahoma Tombstone Project: Custer County
Western Oklahoma Newspaper on Microfilm	Microfilm for Custer County at Heritage Quest	Weatherford history	Funeral Homes of Oklahoma - Custer
Custer County 1917 Military Registration	Western Plains Library System WPLS at Okla. Dept. Libraries	Custer County Newspapers at Oklahoma Historical Society	Cheyenne & Arapaho I.T.GenWeb
Custer County Physicians 1903-1904	Census 1910 Deer Creek Twp ED120 Arapaho Twp ED111	Custer County Message Board at Ancestry/Rootsweb	1891 Schedule of Allotments Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation - Native American Research

Published Histories & Resources
Prairie Fire ... a pioneer history of Cheyenne & Arapaho lands published about 1978
Trail of 100 Years 1892-1992 Arapaho, Oklahoma
(Arapaho Chamber of Commerce, 1992)
Cemeteries of Custer County, Oklahoma
(Western Plains Weatherford Genealogical Society, 1992)
The Western Plainsman, quarterly newsletter of Western Plains Weatherford Genealogical Society.
Locate them through Western Plains Library System.

Custer County genealogy online


John W. Smith family	Pace Family History	Lawton family
	Cabaniss - Jones - Cobb - Dovel

Orient Hotel, Arapaho 1904, owner George W. Stephens

Arapaho Band - What year? Who are these musical talents?

Custer County - famous and infamous
Arapaho "home town" of Leon Chase Phillips, Governor of Oklahoma 1939-1943. He attended Valley View and Arapaho schools 1896-1908.
Arapaho cemetery - burial site for outlaw Red Buck Waitman 1896

re-enactors 30 Sept 2000, Clinton, Okla.

Custer County online

Clinton Daily News	Southwestern Oklahoma State University	Weatherford Daily News
	Custer County Sheriff's Office
Clinton Chamber of Commerce	Custer County Cooperative Extension Service	City of Weatherford

Arapaho School - Butler School - Clinton High School - Thomas School - Weatherford Schools
Custer County Minerals
Census Profile 1996
Census Population Counts for Custer County

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
12264	23231	18736	27517	23068	21097	21040	22665	25995	26897

http://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ok190090.txt

Oklahoma links

	OKGenWeb
Cyndi's List - Oklahoma	Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society	Researching Oklahoma Homesteaders

OkGenWeb & BMD Marriage Database
OkGenWeb & BMD Deaths Database

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