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History · Horntown

Half of Horntown’s homes were built after 1982

Most of Horntown was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1900 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Horntown’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 Horntown are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19003 editions of the USGS map, 1900 to 1985. Watch Horntown change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Horntown’s history is told.

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On the map

Horntown on the map, 1900 to 1985

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

Horntown on the 1900 USGS mapHorntown on the 1970 USGS mapHorntown on the 1985 USGS map1900Wewoka 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 Horntown.

The story

How Horntown came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Horntown.

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Horntown is the center of a dispersed rural community in Jacobs Township of Hughes County that formed in the 1920s. The earliest inhabitants, according to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, were T. C. Horn and Charley Hawthorn, who operated retail stores, garages, gasoline stations and a restaurant at the crossroads of two section-line roads that are now U.S. Highways 75 and 270.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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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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People over time

Horntown, census by census

010020002020Peak: 97

Between 61 and 97 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Horntown

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

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Woody GuthrieAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1912
William R. PogueAmerican astronaut · b. 1930
Clu GulagerAmerican actor · b. 1928
John HerringtonAmerican astronaut · b. 1958
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Jesse MashburnAmerican athletics competitor · b. 1933
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Sharon ClarkAmerican actress and model · b. 1943

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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.