Editing Caddo County, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Caddo County was organized on August 6, 1901, when the Federal Government allotted the [[Kiowa]], [[Comanche]], and [[Arapaho]] reservations and sold the surplus land to white settlers.<ref name=caddo_county_history>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wilson |first=Linda D. |url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CA005 |title=Caddo County |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |date=2009 |edition=online |access-date=April 16, 2015}}</ref> The reservation land was part of Oklahoma Territory until Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907. Part of its land was taken at statehood to form neighboring [[Grady County, Oklahoma|Grady County]]. Some additional land was taken in 1911 and also awarded to Grady County.<ref name="caddo_county_history"/>
[[File:Redstone baptist church.jpg|thumb|left|Redstone Baptist Church, north of the Apache Wye, Caddo County, [[Kiowa]] mission founded in the 19th century.]]

Agriculture has been the mainstay of the local economy since its founding. The main crops were cotton, corn, wheat, alfalfa, [[broom corn]], and [[kaffir corn]]. Poultry and livestock production have also been important. By 1960, Caddo County ranked first in Oklahoma for producing of peanuts, hogs and poultry.<ref name="caddo_county_history"/>

The first oil field (Cement Field) in the county was discovered in 1911, and oil production has remained important to the county economy since then. Smaller-scale booms in oil production occurred in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="caddo_county_history"/>