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History · Mill Creek

Mill Creek dates to 1852, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 1910.

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How Mill Creek began

When was Mill Creek founded?

1852

Mill Creek dates its founding to 1852 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1910.

First census: 626 in 19102020 census: 293174 years
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1879.The full story ↓

What stands out about Mill Creek’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 Mill Creek came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mill Creek.

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In 1852, when the post office was first established, the town was named Mineral Hill and was within the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. The 1855 Treaty of Separation between the Choctaws and Chickasaws established the latter as a separate nation, effective March 4, 1856. Mill Creek then fell within the Chickasaw Nation boundaries. The post office was renamed Harris Mill in 1859, after Chickasaw Governor Cyrus Harris built a large grist mill on the local creek. The name changed back to Mill Creek in 1879. In 1902, the town of Mill Creek incorporated in Indian Territory, and after statehood, became Mill Creek, Oklahoma, on November 16, 1907.

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Timeline

Mill Creek, 1852 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1852
    FoundingMill Creek is established
  3. 1879Post officeThe Mill Creek post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Mill Creek on the map, 1963 to 1978

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

Mill Creek on the 1963 USGS mapMill Creek on the 1978 USGS map1963Mill Creek sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Mill Creek, census by census

0100200300400500600700192019401960198020002020Peak: 626

Between 234 and 626 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Mill Creek

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

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Kay StarrAmerican singer · b. 1922
Jesse RenickAmerican basketball player · b. 1917
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Don E. WilsonAmerican mammalogist · b. 1944
Rex RyanAmerican football coach and analyst · b. 1962
Joel HefleyAmerican politician · b. 1935
Mauree TurnerAmerican politician and community organizer · b. 1993

Questions about Mill Creek’s history

What year was Mill Creek founded?

In 1852, according to Wikidata. Mill Creek’s post office opened in 1879, and the census of 1910 counted 626 people here.

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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), 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.