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History · Mooreland

Mooreland’s post office opened in 1902, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

More historic than 24% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
3famous people
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How Mooreland began

When was Mooreland founded?

1902

The Mooreland post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 493 in 19102020 census: 1,178124 years

How historic is Mooreland?

C−

More historic than 24% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Mooreland post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Mooreland’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mooreland is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mooreland’s overall grade.
Founding era1902, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 194018.7% of homes (±11.3) · typical OK town 7.0% · U.S. 8.4%B+National RegisterNo listings counted · typical OK town 5.9 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 24%
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Oklahoma towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Oklahoma town has 5.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mooreland’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (18% of Oklahoma towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±11.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Mooreland’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 Mooreland are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mooreland’s history is told.

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The story

How Mooreland came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mooreland.

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The Southern Kansas Railway, later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, constructed a line in 1886/1887 and then furnished an accessible shipping point for the region. After the opening of Cherokee Outlet in 1893, homesteaders made efforts that resulted in the town of Mooreland.

Prosperous area resident J. H. Dail joined F. J. Knittel, John J. Bouquot, John E. Moseley, and William M. Holmes in founding the Mooreland Town Company. They and others realized the agricultural potential of the area and the possibility of immense crop production.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mooreland, 1902 to 1969

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Mooreland post office opens
  3. 1930Born hereTroy Ruttman is born here
  4. 1933Born hereDuke Cook is born here
  5. 1934Born hereElmer Maddux is born here
  6. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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On the map

Mooreland on the map, 1969 to 1985

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

Mooreland on the 1969 USGS mapMooreland on the 1985 USGS map1969Mooreland 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 Mooreland.

People over time

Mooreland, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,400192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,383

Between 493 and 1,383 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Famous people

3 famous people were born in Mooreland

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Troy RuttmanAmerican racing driver · b. 1930
D
Duke CookAmerican gridiron football player · b. 1933
E
Elmer MadduxAmerican politician · b. 1934

Questions about Mooreland’s history

What year was Mooreland founded?

The Mooreland post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Mooreland rank for history?

Mooreland is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

How old are the homes in Mooreland?

19% of Mooreland’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.3 points), against a typical 7.0% for an Oklahoma town; the median home was built in 1971.

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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).

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.