Editing Lambert, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The town of Lambert was named after Ambrose Lambert, who owned the original townsite.<ref name=OPN>{{cite book|last1=Shirk|first1=George H.|title=Oklahoma Place Names|date=March 15, 1987|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=0-8061-2028-2|page=137|edition=2nd, First Paperback, 1987}}</ref>  Lambert is contiguous to the similar small community of [[Yewed, Oklahoma|Yewed]] directly to its east.  Part of the area known as the [[Cherokee Outlet]], Lambert was originally part of [[Woods County, Oklahoma|Woods County]] after 1893 until the time of statehood in 1907, when the area became part of newly formed [[Alfalfa County, Oklahoma|Alfalfa County]].<ref name=EOHC-Lambert>{{cite web|last1=Everett|first1=Dianna|title=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Lambert|url= http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=LA012|website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture|publisher=Oklahoma History Center|accessdate=June 28, 2016}}</ref>

The [[Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad#Choctaw Northern Railroad|Choctaw Northern Railroad]] (later owned by the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad|Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific]]<ref name=EOHC-Amorita>{{cite web|last1=Everett|first1=Dianna|title=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Amorita|url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AM017|website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture|publisher=Oklahoma History Center|accessdate=July 7, 2016}}</ref>
), which in 1901 became the county's first railroad, connected Lambert to the other Alfalfa county towns of [[Aline, Oklahoma|Aline]], Augusta, [[Ingersoll, Oklahoma|Ingersoll]], [[Driftwood, Oklahoma|Driftwood]], [[Amorita, Oklahoma|Amorita]], and on into Kansas.<ref name=EOHC-AlfalfaCo>{{cite web|last1=Everett|first1=Dianna|title=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Alfalfa County|url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AL007|website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture| publisher=Oklahoma History Center|accessdate=July 7, 2016}}</ref>  Lambert had a U.S. Post Office beginning in November 21, 1901 and remaining open until April 30, 1952.<ref name=OPN/>

By 1909, Lambert had 127 inhabitants and four churches, a hotel, a bank, an elevator, and two grain buyers.  In addition, a half-dozen stores served the local community.<ref name=EOHC-Lambert/>  Its population peaked in 1920 at 130,<ref name="DecennialCensus"/> having since declined over the decades to the population of five reported in the 2020 Census.<ref name=Census2020/>

Lambert's ''Farmers' Bank'' had the peculiar distinction of having been robbed twice, first in 1904 and then again in 1919.<ref name=EOHC-Lambert/>