Yukon, Oklahoma
| Yukon, Oklahoma | |
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Yukon's Best Flour Mill, Yukon, OK
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 Yukon, Oklahoma
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| Coordinates: 35°30′8″N 97°44′57″W / 35.50222°N 97.74917°WCoordinates: 35°30′8″N 97°44′57″W / 35.50222°N 97.74917°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | Canadian |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | John Alberts |
| Area | |
| • Total | 26.3 sq mi (68.1 km2) |
| • Land | 26.2 sq mi (67.9 km2) |
| • Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,289 ft (393 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 22,709 |
| • Density | 866/sq mi (334.3/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 73085, 73099 |
| Area code(s) | 405 |
| FIPS code | 40-82950 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1100067 |
| Website | www |
Yukon is a city in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 22,709 at the 2010 census. Founded in the 1890s, the town was named in reference to a gold rush in Yukon Territory, Canada, at the time. Historically, Yukon served as an urban center for area farmers and the site of a large milling operation. It is now considered primarily a bedroom community for people who work in Oklahoma City.
Yukon was founded by A.N. Spencer in 1891, and was named for the Yukon River in Alaska.
Spencer, a cattleman from Texas turned railroad builder, was working on a line from El Reno to Arkansas when he decided to build the town. Spencer filed the plat on the townsite on February 14, 1891. He had agreed to do so and lay the train tracks through the town in exchange for half of the lots, which were owned by Minnie Taylor and Luther S. Morrison. Taylor and Morrison had acquired the land in the 1889 land run. Spencer also bought two quarter sections south of Main Street from Joseph Carson and his sister, Josephine. Spencer and his brother, Lewis, named the town after the Yukon Territory of Canada, where a gold rush was booming at the time.
The first houses and businesses were located 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 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 population of 1,000 at the time. Beginning in about 1898, Yukon began to attract immigrants from Bohemia. Following World War I and the dissolution of Bohemia into Czechoslovakia and Moravia, the immigrants became known as "Czechs." Yukon is known as the "Czech Capital of Oklahoma".
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