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History · Vici

Vici’s post office opened in 1900, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Vici M-K-T Depot. Below: maps from 1969 on and the census since 1930.

1900first post office
1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Vici began

When was Vici founded?

1900

The Vici post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 482 in 19302020 census: 611126 years
Founding year: the first Vici post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Vici’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 Vici are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1930 and 1940, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vici’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Vici, census by census

02004006008001,00019401960198020002020482 in 1930Low: 257

Lost half of its people between 1930 and 1940, then more than doubled.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

The story

How Vici came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Vici.

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Although it had a couple of nearby predecessor settlements, the current town of Vici was platted on September 11, 1911, at a time when buildings were being moved to the site to be close to the tracks of the newly-built Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, later part of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. The Vici M-K-T Depot on Houser St. between 7th and 8th is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dewey County, Oklahoma.

The town became a prosperous agricultural-products shipping point through the 1940s. Rail service ended in 1972, but activities such as ranching, oil and gas, and a large nursing home became important economic drivers in the modern era.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Vici, 1900 to 1980

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Vici post office opens
  3. 1911Born hereJ. Jay McVicker is born here
  4. 1912BuiltVici M-K-T Depot is built
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 928
By decade

Vici, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Vici MKT Depot2023Vici MKT DepotOKMap-doton-Vici2004OKMap-doton-Vici
On the map

Vici on the map, 1969 to 1985

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

Vici on the 1969 USGS mapVici on the 1985 USGS map1969Vici 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 Vici.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Vici

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Vici M-K-T Depot
Vici M-K-T Depot, built 1912
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Wood Frame Combination Depot1
Vici M-K-T DepotWood Frame Combination Depot · Built 1912

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

Questions about Vici’s history

What year was Vici founded?

The Vici post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Vici?

One place: the Vici M-K-T Depot (listed 2007).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.