Overbrook, Oklahoma
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Overbrook is an
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 ...
in Love County,
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, United States. Overbrook has a post office with the ZIP code 73453. The settlement is old enough to appear on a 1911 Rand McNally map of the county. Overbrook is named for Overbrook station, the first stop west of
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on the former
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's prestigious Main Line, located in the city's Overbrook section. It is one of several Oklahoma communities between
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and
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that were named or renamed for PRR Main Line stations between Philadelphia and Paoli by the
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on its Gulf Coast main line (now part of
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).


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