unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
, United States. It is seven miles southwest of Blackwell.Shirk, George. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. 2nd ed. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, Oklahoma. 1987, p. 77. The community was originally called Osborne, but its name was changed to Eddy on January 3, 1901. It was named "Eddy" after Ed E. Peckham, who was the son of railroad developer E.L. Peckham, whose name gave
Peckham
Peckham ( ) is a district in south-east London, within the London Borough of Southwark. It is south-east of Charing Cross. At the 2001 Census the Peckham ward had a population of 14,720.
History
"Peckham" is a Saxon place name meaning the vi ...
its name. A post office operated in Eddy but closed on February 22, 1957.