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History · Mustang

Mustang’s post office opened in 1895, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 22% of U.S. towns · #95 of 131 in Oklahoma. What drives it

Most of Mustang was built recently: 0.9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Meloy House. Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1930.

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Quick answers

How Mustang began

When was Mustang founded?

1895

The Mustang post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 107 in 19302020 census: 19,879131 years

How historic is Mustang?

C−

More historic than 22% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

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

What drives Mustang’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mustang is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #95 of 131 in Oklahoma. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mustang’s overall grade.
Founding era1895, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.9% of homes (±0.7) · typical OK town 7.0% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register1 listing, 0.5 per 10,000 residents · typical OK town 5.9 · U.S. 2.4C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 22%
NewerOlder
Oklahoma towns of 2,500+ (131)Ahead of 28%

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 Mustang’s 0.5 sits near the middle of its state (38% of Oklahoma towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 (±0.7 points) is firm at this size. 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 Mustang’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 Mustang are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18935 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1986. Watch Mustang change.
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Start Mustang’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Mustang on the map, 1893 to 1986

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

Mustang on the 1893 USGS mapMustang on the 1956 USGS mapMustang on the 1966 USGS mapMustang on the 1975 USGS mapMustang on the 1986 USGS map1893Oklahoma City 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 Mustang.

The story

How Mustang came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mustang.

Read it all →

The Mustang post office was established in 1895, but the town was not formally established until Charles G. Jones, former mayor of Oklahoma City, filed the plat in November, 1901. During that same year, the Oklahoma City and Western Railroad (acquired later by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco)) built a line from Oklahoma City to Chickasha that passed through Mustang.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mustang, 1893 to 1989

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1895Post officeThe Mustang post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1902BuiltMeloy House is built
  6. 1989Born hereJosh Cooper is born here
By decade

Mustang, decade by decade

Today1 recent
US military plaque in2022US military plaque in
On the National Register

1 historic place in Mustang

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2014
Meloy House
Meloy House, built 1902
Buildings
Meloy HouseBuilt 1902

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Mustang, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,0001940196019802000202019,879

Grew from 107 people in 1930 to 19,879 in 2020, more than tenfold.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Questions about Mustang’s history

What year was Mustang founded?

The Mustang post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Mustang rank for history?

Mustang is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #95 of 131 in Oklahoma. 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.

What is on the National Register in Mustang?

One place: the Meloy House (listed 2014).

How old are the homes in Mustang?

0.9% of Mustang’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 7.0% for an Oklahoma town; the median home was built in 1992.

Memory lane

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

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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).

From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.