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History · Yeager

Yeager’s post office opened in 1902

Most of Yeager was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2003. Below: maps from 1900 on and the census since 1910.

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How Yeager began

When was Yeager founded?

1902

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

First census: 231 in 19102020 census: 45124 years
Founding year: the first Yeager post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Yeager’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 Yeager are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19003 editions of the USGS map, 1900 to 1985. Watch Yeager change.Boom and bustPeaked at 300 in 1930; 45 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Yeager’s history is told.

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On the map

Yeager on the map, 1900 to 1985

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

Yeager on the 1900 USGS mapYeager on the 1972 USGS mapYeager on the 1985 USGS map1900Wewoka sheet · 1:125,000

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

People over time

Yeager, census by census

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Peaked at 300 in 1930; 45 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Yeager came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Yeager.

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According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture the present community was named for a Creek allottee, Hattie Yargee. The town was developed along the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway, which was built between 1900 and 1901. When a post office was established on February 6, 1902, the Post Office Department changed the spelling of the office to the present Yeager. An oil and gas field opened in the town in 1917 and helped support the railroad industry in the 1920s.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Yeager, 1900 to 1974

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1902Post officeThe Yeager post office opens
  4. 1930CensusPopulation peaks at 300
  5. 1935Born hereBen Hines is born here
  6. 1974Post officeThe Yeager post office closes
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Yeager had its own post office from 1902 to 1974.

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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Yeager’s history

What year was Yeager founded?

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

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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, 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.