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Pond Creek, Oklahoma
Pond Creek is a city in Grant County, Oklahoma, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 856, a 4.5 percent decline from 896 at the 2000 census.〔CensusViewer:Pond Creek (corporate and RR name for Pondcreek), Oklahoma Population.()〕
==History==
Before people of European descent came on the scene, the region around the present town of Pond Creek was traversed by many of the nomadic Native Americans of the Great Plains. Although the land is now heavily agricultural there are still traces of campsites along the numerous creeks of the drainage of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River. When many of the Native American groups were moved onto reservations in what is now Oklahoma, towns and trading posts were established. Eventually the present-day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. The history of Pond Creek and the surrounding area can be easily confused with other streams called Pond Creek (see e.g.〔() Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 2, No. 1 March 1924 MILITARY REMINISCENSES OF CAPTAIN RICHARD T. JACOB〕). The present community of Pond Creek is located in what is called the Cherokee Strip, more properly known as the Cherokee Outlet. The land at the confluence of Osage Creek and Pond Creek was known as the Pond Creek Stockade on the original Chisholm Trail used by cattle drivers bringing herds of Texas longhorns north to the railroad head first at Abilene, Kansas then later to Wichita and Caldwell.〔() Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 10, No. 3 September 1932 EDWIN WILLIAMS, ENGINEER Hubert E. Collins pg. 336〕
〔() Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 14, No. 1 March 1936 THE TWO CATTLE TRAILS H. S. Tennant〕 This location is about 4 miles north of the present town of Pond Creek near the present village of Jefferson. Two markers have been placed in this area commemorating the untimely demise of two cowboys.〔() Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 7, No. 1 March 1929 A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH T.E. Beck, Jefferson, Okla. Page 121-122〕 There are two granite markers placed near Pond Creek on the old Chisholm Trail.〔() Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 16, No. 4 December 1938 OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL NOTES Edited by James W. Moffitt pg. 339.〕
In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch line north-south from Caldwell, Kansas to Pond Creek in 1888.〔(Rock Island Rail History )〕 By 1893, it was incrementally built to Fort Worth, Texas. It was foreclosed on in 1891 and taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut-down in 1980. The Kansas-Texas mainline was sold to a subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad as the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merging in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, which merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad. Most locals still refer to this railroad as the "Rock Island."
Pond Creek was settled as a town during the Cherokee Strip Land Run in 1893.[Wilson, Linda C. ("Pond Creek," ) ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', 2009. Accessed April 3, 2015.〕 According to the ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'', "The government townsite of Pond Creek was first entered at 2:10 on the day of the run. By evening, it contained some 8,000 inhabitants, and boasted a good hotel, several restaurants, a dozen law offices, two general stores and six or seven grocery stores."〔Milam, Joe B.("The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet" ) "The Opening of the Cherokee Outlet". Chronicles of Oklahoma 10:1 March 1932 page 128.〕 The settlers soon found that there was not enough water to support the new town; the government had dug wells for all of the government townsites, including Pond Creek, but all the water in Pond Creek's well was quickly used up.〔 Soldiers dug a new well but found only salt water.〔 Water from the Salt Fork River was brought to Pond Creek and sold for five cents a cup, but it was not fit for human or animal consumption.〔 Beer became a precious commodity, selling for fifty to seventy-five cents a bottle.〔 Water from stagnant creek pools was given to animals.〔 The area also experienced a violent sand storm and wildfires.〔]
In addition to these tribulations, the citizens of Pond Creek had to do battle with the powerful railroad interests, in this case the "Rock Island Line" or CRI&P railroad, to get a coveted depot. This conflict has been called the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War. Briefly, the railroad had established a station for Pond Creek and the federal government established a different station about 4 miles south of the railroad town. The railroad refused to stop at the government Pond Creek until a combination of citizen action and congressional action forced them to change. Pond Creek legend has it that the railroad specified a mail stop at Pond Creek so to keep face they merely changed the name of railroad Pond Creek to Jefferson and made government Pond Creek the Pond Creek station. This story doesn't quite correspond with most personal histories of the controversy〔http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v022/v022p435.pdf pp452-456〕 but it makes a colorful tale.
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