Editing Kildare, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad built a section house, agent's cottage, a tool house and a depot at the future site of Kildare in 1892, a year before the opening of the [[Cherokee Outlet]] to settlers.<ref name="EOHC-Kildare">Dye, Karen. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'' "Kildare'" Retrieved September 22, 2012.[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/K/KI008.html]</ref>

The railroad said it sold eight thousand tickets to Kildare for September 16, 1893, the opening day of the Cherokee Strip land run. Kildare boomed almost overnight. A post office was established on October 24, 1893. The town was incorporated by the Territorial Legislature on March 2, 1905. However, the lack of water limited its future. The highest population ever recorded in the U. S. census was 216 in 1910. Three times fires destroyed the business district, and fewer businesses rebuilt each time.<ref name="EOHC-Kildare"/>

It was named after [[County Kildare]] in [[Ireland]].