Homestead, Oklahoma
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Homestead is a small
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 northern Blaine County,
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, United States. The town was platted along the Choctaw Northern Railroad (later the Rock Island) before statehood. The Homestead Post Office opened January 26, 1893.Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names'', Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965, p.105. Homestead had a population of 150 residents in 1905, according to the Oklahoma Territorial Census. The town lost rail service around 1926.


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