Editing Forgan, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The town name honors James B. Forgan, a Chicago banker and financier.<ref name=OKEnc>Hodges, V. Pauline [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=FO026 "Forgan,"]  ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 15, 2015.</ref>  L. B. Tooker established the first newspaper, the Forgan Enterprise, on June 6, 1912. A total of fifty-three businesses and four medical doctors were in the town at that time. As the town was located in a wheat-producing area, grain elevators were built to store wheat prior to shipment. The population dropped to 428 in 1940 after an exodus due to the [[Dust Bowl]].<ref name=OKEnc/><ref name=Strategy>{{cite journal|url= https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1752289/m1/84/ |title=Construction Strategies of Railroads in the Oklahoma Panhandle|journal=Chronicles of Oklahoma |date=1980 |volume=58 |issue=1 |publisher=Donovan L. Hofsommer, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 58, No 1, Spring 1980, pp. 82-89|accessdate=December 6, 2021 |last1=Blackburn |first1=Bob L. }}</ref><ref name=Abandoned>{{cite web|url= https://www.abandonedrails.com/beaver-meade-and-englewood-railroad |title=The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad|publisher=AbandonedRails.com|accessdate=December 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw10|title=Donovan L. Hofsommer, "The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway"|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref>

At the turn of the twenty-first century the economy was based on wheat and milo farming, ranching, the oil and gas industry, and corporate hog farms.<ref name=OKEnc/>