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History · Dacoma

Dacoma’s post office opened in 1904, and 36% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1910.

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36%homes built before 1940
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How Dacoma began

When was Dacoma founded?

1904

The Dacoma post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 146 in 19102020 census: 109122 years
Founding year: the first Dacoma post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dacoma’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 Dacoma are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 332 in 1930; 109 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Dacoma’s homes were built before 1960.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dacoma’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Dacoma, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 332

Peaked at 332 in 1930; 109 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story so far

Dacoma, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dacoma yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Dacoma is a town in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Dacoma had a population of 109.

Its first post office opened in 1904. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 107 in 2010, 109 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Dacoma, 1904 to 1969

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Dacoma post office opens
  3. 1926Born hereWayne Glasgow is born here
  4. 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 332
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Dacoma on the map, 1969 to 1990

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

Dacoma on the 1969 USGS mapDacoma on the 1985 USGS mapDacoma on the 1990 USGS map1969Dacoma 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 Dacoma.

Questions about Dacoma’s history

What year was Dacoma founded?

The Dacoma post office opened in 1904, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.