Editing Empire City, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
A classic oil-boom town, Empire City started in the late 1910s as drilling activity in Stephens County mushroomed.<ref name="OHS">{{cite web | url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=EM002| title= Empire City| publisher= Oklahoma Historical Society | accessdate=February 16, 2020}}</ref>  At its peak, its estimated population was about 3000.<ref name ="OHS" />   The original post office was established in February 1921 and discontinued in December 1934.<ref name ="OHS" />   With the boom long gone, the population by 1980 dwindled to just 13 persons.<ref name ="OHS" />  But the town started a rebound in the mid-1980s, though no post office has been reestablished.<ref name ="OHS" />