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History · Milburn

Milburn’s post office opened in 1901, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1901 on and the census since 1910.

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Quick answers

How Milburn began

When was Milburn founded?

1901

The Milburn post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 438 in 19102020 census: 252125 years
Founding year: the first Milburn post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Milburn’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 Milburn are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19013 editions of the USGS map, 1901 to 1985. Watch Milburn change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Milburn’s history is told.

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On the map

Milburn on the map, 1901 to 1985

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

Milburn on the 1901 USGS mapMilburn on the 1967 USGS mapMilburn on the 1985 USGS map1901Tishomingo 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 Milburn.

The story

How Milburn came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Milburn.

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A town named Ellen was formed in the Chickasaw Nation (Indian Territory) in 1856, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from the present town of Milburn. When the Western Oklahoma Railroad (later known as the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad) was built, W. J. Milburn, a druggist from Emet, Emet, persuaded the Chickasaw landowner, M. C. Condon, to give Milburn the power of attorney to negotiate a new townsite near the railroad. Milburn tried to persuade the postmaster at Ellen to move his location to the new site and rename it. He submitted the name Condon, which the Post Office rejected. Many names were proposed for the new town. Initially, the railroad wanted to name it Morris, then changed to McLish. Finally, the name Milburn was agreed upon in August 1901.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Milburn, 1901 to 1932

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1901Post officeThe Milburn post office opens
  3. 1901On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1932Born hereBoyd Converse is born here
By decade

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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People over time

Milburn, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 496

Between 228 and 496 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Questions about Milburn’s history

What year was Milburn founded?

The Milburn post office opened in 1901, 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 Wikipedia, 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.