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History · Grandfield

Grandfield’s post office opened in 1909, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

5 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 22 buildings. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1917 on.

1909first post office
5on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Grandfield’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Grandfield began

When was Grandfield founded?

1909

The Grandfield post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 919117 years
Founding year: the first Grandfield post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Grandfield’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.A historic districtThe Grandfield Downtown Historic District takes in 22 historic buildings.Landmarks on the Register5 places on the National Register.
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Start Grandfield’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grandfield’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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On the National Register

5 listings protect 26 historic buildings

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

places listed
5
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
26
each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
William and Mabel Donahoo Hubbard House
William and Mabel Donahoo Hubbard House, built 1919Tillman County Bank of GrandfieldRock Island Depot, built 1920Humphreys Drugstore BuildingGrandfield Downtown Historic District
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Commercial Style2
Craftsman/Bungalow1
Italian Renaissance1
Tudor Revival1
Classical Revival1
Spanish Eclectic1
William and Mabel Donahoo Hubbard HouseCraftsman/Bungalow · Built 1919
Tillman County Bank of GrandfieldItalian Renaissance
Rock Island DepotTudor Revival · Built 1920
All 5 listings
Humphreys Drugstore BuildingBuilding · listed 1992Grandfield Downtown Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2002

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

The story

How Grandfield came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Grandfield.

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The Big Pasture, approximately 480,000 acres (1,900 km2) bounded on the south by the Red River and presently located in parts of Comanche, Cotton, and Tillman counties, was the last settled territory in Oklahoma. Native control of the land traces to the Quapaw, who ceded it to the United States in 1818. The Choctaw and Chickasaw accepted the area in the 1820s and 1830s but lost it as a result of the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866. By the terms of the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 a reservation that included the Big Pasture was set-aside for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. The land became part of Oklahoma Territory in December 1906.

ChaptersOpening the Big PastureFoundingOil boom

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Grandfield, 1909 to 1946

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Grandfield post office opens
  3. 1917In the archiveOklahoma
  4. 1919BuiltWilliam and Mabel Donahoo Hubbard House is built
  5. 1920BuiltRock Island Depot is built
  6. 1946Born hereDonna Hilbert is born here
By decade

Grandfield, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s2 items
Oklahoma1917OklahomaOklahoma1917Oklahoma
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today2 recent
US Navy 061020-N-6282K-003 Hull Technician 3rd Class Dylan Merryfield of Grandfield, Okla., cuts off pieces of a stanch…2006US Navy 061020-N-6282K-003 Hull Technician 3rd Class …OKMap-doton-Grandfield2004OKMap-doton-Grandfield
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Oklahoma
Retake this viewOklahoma, 1917

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Grandfield’s page.

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Questions about Grandfield’s history

What year was Grandfield founded?

The Grandfield post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Grandfield?

5 listings: 4 buildings, among them the William and Mabel Donahoo Hubbard House (listed 1991, the first), and 1 historic district, the Grandfield Downtown Historic District, with 22 contributing buildings. 26 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (5), Wikipedia, 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.