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History · Custer City

21% of Custer City’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Broadway Hotel, the Pyeatt's, J. J., General Store and the First National Bank of Custer City. Its Register listings are the Broadway Hotel, the Pyeatt's, J. J., General Store and the First National Bank of Custer City.

3on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
3famous people
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What stands out about Custer City’s past

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The story so far

Custer City, in brief

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Custer City is a town in Custer County, Oklahoma, United States. Custer City is northeast of Clinton and northwest of Weatherford along Oklahoma 33. The population was 367 at the time of the 2020 census. Custer City was originally known as Graves, and a post office was established there on January 22, 1894. The post office changed its name to Custer City on September 28, 1904, in honor of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 375 to 367 (-2%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Custer City, 1903 to 1979

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1903BuiltFirst National Bank of Custer City is built
  3. 1904Post officeThe Custer post office opens
  4. 1908Born hereDon Flowers is born here
  5. 1916Born hereTom Turner is born here
  6. 1917Born hereWilliam Brinkley is born here
  7. 1979Post officeThe Custer post office closes
  8. 1979Post officeThe Custer City post office opens
By decade

Custer City, decade by decade

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On the National Register

3 historic places in Custer City

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
Broadway Hotel
Broadway HotelPyeatt's, J. J., General StoreFirst National Bank of Custer City, built 1903
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Plains Commercial1
All 3 listings
Broadway HotelBuilding · listed 1985Pyeatt's, J. J., General StoreBuilding · listed 1985First National Bank of Custer CityBuilding · listed 1985

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

3 famous people were born in Custer City

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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William BrinkleyAmerican writer and journalist · b. 1917
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Tom TurnerBaseball player · b. 1916
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Don FlowersCartoonist · b. 1908
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Custer City’s post office has been open since 1979. Another post office, Custer, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Custer
1904–1979
Custer City
1979–today
19001960today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Custer City’s history

What is on the National Register in Custer City?

Three places: the Broadway Hotel (listed 1985), the Pyeatt's, J. J., General Store (1985) and the First National Bank of Custer City (1985).

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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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.