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 ...
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Kay County
Kay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 43,700. Its county seat is Newkirk, and the largest city is Ponca City.
Kay County comprises the Ponca City micropolitan statistical ar ...
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northea ...
, United States. The community is west of Newkirk and northeast of Blackwell. It (and
Eddy, Oklahoma
Eddy is an unincorporated community in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States. It is seven miles southwest of Blackwell.Shirk, George. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. 2nd ed. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, Oklahoma. 1987, p. 77. The community was ...
) was named for railroad developer Ed L. Peckham. A post office opened in Peckham on July 15, 1899.