445 pages with 89 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Canadian County, Oklahoma, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6557 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 28 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1890s4537 1900s1791 1910s925 1920s665 1930s240 1940s31 1950s75 1960s55 What Cities and Towns are in Canadian County, Oklahoma (and in this book)? Banner, Calumet, Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency (historical), Concho, El Reno, Karns, Mustang, Niles, Piedmont, Powers, Richland, Scott, Union City, Yukon

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Oklahoma City, Yukon, Oklahoma, El Reno, Oklahoma, Calumet, Oklahoma, Mustang, Oklahoma, Okarche, Oklahoma, Union City, Oklahoma, Geary, Oklahoma, Piedmont, Oklahoma, Neighborhoods of Oklahoma City, National Register of Historic Places listings in Canadian County, Oklahoma, Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport, El Reno Regional Airport, El Reno High School, Redlands Community College, Concho, Oklahoma, Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno, Southwest Covenant School, Sundance Airpark, Scott, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple, Lake Overholser, Mustang High School, Czech Hall, Banner School District, Devil's Canyon. Excerpt: Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 580,000, with an estimated metro-area population of 1,252,987. In 2010, the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,322,249 residents. Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas are suburban. The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county). Oklahoma City features one of the top livestock markets in the world. Oil, natural gas, and petroleum products are major components of the economy (the city is situated in the middle of an active oil field and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds). The federal government employs many at the Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center. (These two sites house several offices of the Federal...

Donald Robert Thompson was born 23 May 1924 near El Reno, Oklahoma. His parents were William Robert Thompson and Grace Weaver. Gloria Geraldine Moberly was born 17 November 1926 in Calumet, Oklahoma. Her parents were Claude Moberly and Grace Truman Winfrey. She married Donald Thompson in 1946. They had three sons. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri and England.

Keeping time with the river for which it was named, Canadian County courses with haunted history. The heritage of persecuted tribes, outlawed fugitives and struggling pioneers runs through the region with the strength of desperation. Apparitions walk the shore of Lake Overholser, and disembodied voices echo around Yukon's Stage Door Theatre. Strange presences peer through the broken windows of the abandoned Concho Indian School. From Deadman's Curve to the Chisholm Trail, Tanya McCoy and Whitney Wilson trace the story of Canadian County's spectral past.