Editing Ketchum, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
[[Image:James Ketchum b1819 Delaware tribe.png|thumb|100px|left|Portrait of James Ketchum, of the Delaware tribe<ref>Smithsonian. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!93091!0 Group of 12 men: Delegates to Washington, 1866, and members of Delaware-Cherokee Agreement, 1867]</ref>]]
The town was named for James Ketchum, a prominent member of the [[Lenape|Delaware]] tribe and [[Methodism|Methodist]] minister who helped found the town in 1899. Ketchum was originally located in northeastern Mayes County, on the bank of the [[Grand River (Oklahoma)|Grand River]] ([[Neosho River]]). It was relocated to southeastern Craig County around 1912 when the Kansas, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railroad (KO&G) was being constructed from southeastern Kansas to Texas. The original townsite sat in an area that was later filled in by the creation of [[Grand Lake o' the Cherokees]].<ref name="EOHC-Ketchum">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=KE013 Craig County Genealogical Society, "Ketchum,"  ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Accessed April 18, 2015.</ref>

The economy of Ketchum was based on agriculture until [[Pensacola Dam]] was built in 1937-1939, creating Grand Lake. Since then, the local economy has largely been dominated by tourism and other businesses related to the lake.<ref name="EOHC-Ketchum"/>

Construction is currently underway to upgrade the town's airport, which was formerly known as the Craig County South Grand Lake Airport. A group of private investors is funding the new airport which includes paving the former grass runway. When the new airport is completed it will be a full service regional airport and will be named the [[South Grand Lake Regional Airport]].<ref name="FAA">{{FAA-airport|ID=1K8|use=PU|own=PU|site=19046.02*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.</ref>