Editing St. Louis, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
St. Louis originally began in 1906 as a community named Simpsonville when J. R. Simpson opened a cotton gin, a gristmill and then a general store. It is unclear when the name of the community was changed to St. Louis. A town plat was not filed until March 9, 1927, and a post office was established in 1928.<ref name="EOHC-St.Louis">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=ST008 Donna Stacy, "St. Louis," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Accessed May 24, 2015.</ref>

Except for a brief oil boom in the 1920s, the town's economy has been based on serving local cotton farmers.<ref name="EOHC-St.Louis"/>

The population peaked at 493 residents in 1930 before declining in subsequent decades.  It recovered back to 206 residents in 2000 but has declined more in recent times.<ref name="EOHC-St.Louis"/>