Felt is a small

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and

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(CDP) in

Cimarron County Cimarron County is the westernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its county seat is Boise City, Oklahoma, Boise City. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 2,296, making it the leas ...

, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 93. It was named for C.F.W. Felt of the

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. Nearby is the Cedar Breaks Archeological District, included on the

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. The community is served by a post office (established July 16, 1926) and a school. During the Great Depression in 1936 a farm in Felt was the site of the iconic

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photograph known as Dust Bowl Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Felt was the original destination of the Elkhart and Santa Fe Railway. This line, both leased to and a wholly owned subsidiary of the

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, was built in 1925 from

Elkhart, Kansas Elkhart is a city in and the county seat of Morton County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,888. The south edge of the city is the Kansas-Oklahoma state border, and the city is from the Kansas-Co ...

through Boise City to the town, and extended to Clayton, New Mexico in 1932; but, the whole segment from Boise City to Clayton was abandoned in 1942.

Geography

Felt is located in southwestern Cimarron County, near the western end of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Felt is less than five miles north of the

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border, and just over 12 miles east of the

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border. It is the nearest Oklahoma community to the

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marker, being about 14 miles east-northeast of the tripoint of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. U.S. Routes 56, 64, and

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pass concurrently through the community, leading northeast to Boise City, the Cimarron County seat, and southwest to the larger Clayton, New Mexico. The town is essentially surrounded by the

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, and the federally-maintained Felt Picnic Site is just south of town.

Demographics

References

Census-designated places in Cimarron County, Oklahoma Census-designated places in Oklahoma Oklahoma Panhandle {{Oklahoma-geo-stub