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History · Davenport

Davenport’s post office opened in 1892, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Davenport Broadway Avenue Brick Street. Below: maps from 1905 on and the census since 1910.

1892first post office
1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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How Davenport began

When was Davenport founded?

1892

The Davenport post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 394 in 19102020 census: 809134 years
Founding year: the first Davenport post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Davenport’s past

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

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The story

How Davenport came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Davenport.

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A post office was established March 29, 1892 after the Sac and Fox land run of 1891. However, when a rail line built by the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad was crossed by the line of the Eastern Oklahoma Railway in 1901, the town coalesced around that intersection, and was formally incorporated in 1906. Roads were not neglected; the town managed to get the Ozark Trail Highway through the location in 1916, and this road became the path of U.S. Route 66 through town in 1926.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Davenport, decade by decade

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On the map

Davenport on the map, 1905 to 1974

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

Davenport on the 1905 USGS mapDavenport on the 1974 USGS map1905Chandler sheet · 1:62,500

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Davenport

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

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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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first listed
2004
Davenport Broadway Avenue Brick Street
Davenport Broadway Avenue Brick Street
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Brick Pavement1
Davenport Broadway Avenue Brick StreetBrick Pavement

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

People over time

Davenport, census by census

02004006008001,0001,200192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,072

Between 394 and 1,072 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Davenport’s history

What year was Davenport founded?

The Davenport post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Davenport?

One place: the Davenport Broadway Avenue Brick Street (listed 2004).

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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 (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.