Gibbon is a populated place in
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Oklahoma
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It is southeast of
Manchester
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and northwest of
Wakita.
While never formally incorporated, the town was given a post office on March 26, 1896 by early settler William H McGibbon, to which he attached the “Gibbon” name.
Located on a rail line, the town had two grain elevators, two general stores, a railroad depot, a lumber yard, a cheese factory, a stockyard and a hotel by 1915.
[ Unfortunately, the highway (]Oklahoma State Highway 132
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) bypassed the town, and the drought in the 1930s was hard on the farmers in the area.[ Businesses left, and the post office closed in 1945.][ Few vestiges of a town remain.][
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Unincorporated communities in Grant County, Oklahoma
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