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History · Boynton

Boynton’s post office opened in 1902, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1914 on and the census since 1910.

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How Boynton began

When was Boynton founded?

1902

The Boynton post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 679 in 19102020 census: 161124 years
Founding year: the first Boynton post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Boynton’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Boynton are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,204 in 1920; 161 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Boynton’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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People over time

Boynton, census by census

02004006008001,0001,200192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,204

Peaked at 1,204 in 1920; 161 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Boynton’s Wikipedia page.

The story

How Boynton came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Boynton.

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Boynton was built in 1903 with the coming of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The post office was named for E. L. Boynton, chief engineer of the Missouri Coal and Railroad Company. Boosted by an oil refinery and a brick factory, the town reached a peak population of 1,400 in the 1920 census. By 2000 the population had declined to 274. The local school district, Boynton-Moton Public Schools, closed its high school in September 2010; in March 2011, the Oklahoma State Board of Education voted to revoke the district's accreditation and close the lower school as of June 2011.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Boynton, 1902 to 1971

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Boynton post office opens
  3. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 1,204
  4. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Boynton, decade by decade

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On the map

Boynton on the map in 1971

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Boynton.

Boynton on the 1971 USGS map1971Boynton sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Boynton.

Every building

Boynton, building by building, 1914

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Boynton fire insurance map, 1914, sheet 11914Sheet 1 of 3
BrickWoodStone

Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Famous people

Famous people close to Boynton

Nobody well known was born in Boynton itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Carrie UnderwoodAmerican singer and actor · b. 1983
Barney KesselAmerican jazz guitarist · b. 1923
Ester DeanAmerican singer and songwriter · b. 1982
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Will SampsonMuscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma · b. 1933
Oscar PettifordAmerican musician · b. 1922
Bill BrightAmerican evangelist · b. 1921

Questions about Boynton’s history

What year was Boynton founded?

The Boynton post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.