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History · Cashion

Cashion’s post office opened in 1900

Most of Cashion was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Below: maps from 1892 on and the census since 1910.

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How Cashion began

When was Cashion founded?

1900

The Cashion post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 289 in 19102020 census: 850126 years
Founding year: the first Cashion post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Cashion’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 Cashion are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost a third of its people between 1920 and 1950, then grew 4-fold.On the map since 18923 editions of the USGS map, 1892 to 1990. Watch Cashion change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cashion’s history is told.

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People over time

Cashion, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020296 in 1920Low: 182

Lost a third of its people between 1920 and 1950, then grew 4-fold.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

On the map

Cashion on the map, 1892 to 1990

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cashion. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Cashion on the 1892 USGS mapCashion on the 1970 USGS mapCashion on the 1990 USGS map1892Kingfisher sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story

How Cashion came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cashion.

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Cashion began as the town of Downs, Oklahoma on a hill 3 miles (5 km) south of the Cimarron River. The Oklahoma legislature had once passed a bill to make Downs the capitol of Oklahoma Territory, but the bill was vetoed a few days later by George W. Steele, the first governor of the territory. Once when later Governor Abraham Jefferson Seay was on the road and spent the night in Downs, the townspeople claimed they were the capitol for that night because the governor had the Great Seal of Oklahoma Territory with him at the time.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cashion, 1892 to 2020

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900Post officeThe Cashion post office opens
  5. 21st century
  6. 2020CensusPopulation peaks at 850
By decade

Cashion, decade by decade

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Every building

Cashion, building by building, 1915

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.

Cashion fire insurance map, 1915, sheet 11915Sheet 1 of 1
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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 Cashion

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

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Elizabeth WarrenAmerican politician · b. 1949
Sam WaltonAmerican businessman · b. 1918
Ralph EllisonAmerican novelist, literary critic, scholar and… · b. 1914
Blake GriffinAmerican basketball player · b. 1989
Olivia MunnAmerican actress, comedian, television personal… · b. 1980
J.J. CaleAmerican musician · b. 1938

Questions about Cashion’s history

What year was Cashion founded?

The Cashion post office opened in 1900, 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.