Ceres (
) is an
unincorporated community
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in
Noble County,
Oklahoma, United States.
It is located north of
Perry
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, south of
Tonkawa
The Tonkawa are a Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Oklahoma. Their Tonkawa language, now extinct, is a linguistic isolate.
Today, Tonkawa people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
...
, east-northeast of
Enid and southwest of
Ponca City
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, off
U.S. 77 and
SH-15.
The town was named McKinney shortly after the
Land Run of 1893
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.
But it was renamed Ceres a few years later,
after
the mythological goddess of harvest.
The
depression-era ''
WPA
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Guide to Oklahoma: The Sooner State'' described Ceres as a settlement having a population of 10, two stores and a filling station,
yet the town has survived into the 21st century.
References
Unincorporated communities in Noble County, Oklahoma
Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
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