Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Milfay

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Milfay

Milfay’s post office opened in 1911

Most of Milfay was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1931 on.

1911first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Milfay began

When was Milfay founded?

1911

The Milfay post office opened in 1911, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 74115 years
Founding year: the first Milfay post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Milfay’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 Milfay are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Milfay’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Milfay, in brief

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

Milfay is a small unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States, about five and a half miles east of Stroud. As of the 2020 census, Milfay had a population of 74. The post office was established December 14, 1911. The community was named after Charles Mills and Edward Fay, two railroad officials.

Its first post office opened in 1911.

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

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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Milfay on the map, 1931 to 1975

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

Milfay on the 1931 USGS mapMilfay on the 1975 USGS map1931Drumright 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 Milfay.

Famous people

Famous people close to Milfay

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

See all →
Woody GuthrieAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1912
Jim ThorpeAmerican track and field athlete and baseball p…
Chet BakerAmerican jazz trumpeter and vocalist · b. 1929
William R. PogueAmerican astronaut · b. 1930
Grace ThorpeWorld War II veteran, environmentalist, tribal … · b. 1921
Dan RowanAmerican actor and comedian · b. 1922

Questions about Milfay’s history

What year was Milfay founded?

The Milfay post office opened in 1911, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.