Fillmore, Oklahoma
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Fillmore 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 Johnston County,
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, United States.


History

A post office operated in Fillmore from 1902 to 1965.Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names'', Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2nd ed., 1974, p.88. The community was named after a local resident, Elias Fillmore, who was a
Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is ...
.


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Unincorporated communities in Johnston County, Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub