Wright City, Oklahoma
| Wright City, Oklahoma | |
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| Town | |
 Location of Wright City, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates: 34°3′50″N 95°0′13″W / 34.06389°N 95.00361°WCoordinates: 34°3′50″N 95°0′13″W / 34.06389°N 95.00361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | McCurtain |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.8 sq mi (2.2 km2) |
| • Land | 0.8 sq mi (2.2 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 397 ft (121 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 848 |
| • Density | 1,017.6/sq mi (392.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 74766 |
| Area code(s) | 580 |
| FIPS code | 40-82200 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1100022 |
Wright City is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Little River. The population was 848 at the 2000 census.
Wright City was once home to a Weyerhaeuser plant; it closed permanently in mid March 2009 due to the slowed lumber industry. Weyerhaeuser was Wright City's economic power engine, and its closing affected 165 employees.
Wright City is located at 34°3′50″N 95°0′13″W / 34.06389°N 95.00361°W (34.063789, -95.003551).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all of it land. Just east of Wright City is a small community referred to as Herndon.
Wright City, formerly known as Bismark and Wright, is located ten miles northeast of Valliant and two miles north of Little River on State Highway 98 in western McCurtain County. The Choctaw Lumber Company, a subsidiary of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, founded the town around 1909 as the site for a major processing plant that utilized abundant timber harvested from the region's virgin forests.
On March 24, 1910, a post office charter was issued for Bismark, a name chosen by the Dierks brothers, the company founders, for a Nebraska town where they formerly operated a lumber outlet. The name of the town and post office changed to Wright during World War I because of public association of the Bismark name with that of the former German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck.
The new name was chosen to honor William Wiley Wright, the county's first war casualty. On May 18, 1920, the name was altered to Wright City.
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