Editing Texhoma, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Before [[Neutral Strip|No Man's Land]] was opened for settlers in 1890, the area now known as the [[Oklahoma Panhandle]] was sparsely settled ranchland. After the opening, filing occurred on some of the land near the [[CCC Ranch Headquarters|CCC Ranch]], mostly by the cowboys, and sold to the ranch as soon as proved up. Expansion of the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad|Rock Island Railroad]] tracks from [[Liberal, Kansas]] to [[Santa Rosa, New Mexico]] spurred the settlement's formation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Texhoma {{!}} The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE026 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Oklahoma Historical Society {{!}} OHS |language=en-us}}</ref>

A post office named '''Loretta''' was established May 7, 1898, but anticipating the railroad, the post office in 1901 moved and changed its name to Texhoma, said name referring to the community's location on the state line.<ref name="OHS">{{cite web|url= https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TE026| title= Texhoma| publisher= Larry O’Dell, Oklahoma Historical Society| access-date=February 26, 2020}}</ref> Very few claims were filed on until the railroad was assured. The town grew quickly to a population near 1,000, serving as the closest railroad town to the people who lived as far north and west as present [[Boise City, Oklahoma|Boise City]], and south into the [[Texas Panhandle]] to the present town of [[Gruver, Texas|Gruver]].<ref name=":0" />

After a 1932 survey moved the border south by about 365 feet, most of the businesses in the [[Texhoma, Texas|Texhoma in Texas]] were moved into the Oklahoma.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Texhoma, TX |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texhoma-tx |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>