Editing Yeager, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'' the present community was named for a Creek allottee, Hattie Yargee. The town was developed along the [[St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway]], which was built between 1900 and 1901. When a post office was established on February 6, 1902, the Post Office Department changed the spelling of the office to the present Yeager.<ref name="yeagerpedia">Wilson, Linda D., "[https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=YE001 Yeager]," ''[https://www.okhistory.org/publications/encyclopediaonline.php Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture]'' (accessed July 6, 2019).</ref> An oil and gas field opened in the town in 1917 and helped support the railroad industry in the 1920s.<ref name="yeagerpedia"/>

In 1917, the Yeager Oil Field opened, producing 25 to 2500 barrels{{efn|One barrel of oil is equal to 42 U.S. gallons (oil industry standard)}} of oil per day.<ref name="yeagerpedia"/> As the Yeager field developed during the 1920s, the railroad's revenue dramatically increased by transporting lumber, rig timber, and oil-field equipment to the community. By 1918 citizens had established a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ. In 1918 ''R. L. Polk's Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory'' estimated Yeager's population at 350.<ref name="yeagerpedia"/>

In the mid-1940s Fred A. Ashburn and C. D. Wood operated grocery and filling stations. By the mid-1950s Yeager had a grocery and a filling station. After a fire destroyed the school building on January 18, 1957, voters approved a bond issue to rebuild the facility.<ref name="yeagerpedia"/>