Editing Waurika, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
[[File:First Presbyterian Church Waurika.jpg|right|thumb|Former First Presbyterian Church transformed into a city office building. Listed on the US [[National Register of Historic Places]].]]
Waurika was settled after the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Reservation was opened to non-Indians on August 6, 1901. The first white settler was James McGraw, who [[Homestead Acts|homesteaded]] on the present town site after moving from [[Burlington, Iowa]].<ref name="EOHC-Waurika">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WA048 Sheridan B. Drowatzky, "Waurika," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''], 2009. Accessed March 27, 2015.</ref> The first sale of town lots was held on June 18, 1902. Nearly three thousand people attended the sale.<ref name="EOHC-Waurika"/>

Waurika was incorporated in May 1903. On May 8 of that year, C.A. McBrian was sworn in as the town's first mayor.<ref name="EOHC-Waurika"/>  At the time of its founding, Waurika was located in [[Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation]].<ref>Charles Goins, ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), plate 105.</ref>

The [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway]] came to Waurika in January 1902 after the railroad superintendent "designated the town as a flag station."<ref name="EOHC-Waurika"/> Waurika was formerly the northern terminus for the [[Wichita Falls and Oklahoma Railway]], one of the 20th century properties of [[Frank Kell]] and [[Joseph A. Kemp]] of [[Wichita Falls, Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqwue|title=H. Allen Anderson, "Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad"|publisher=tshaonline.org|access-date=April 19, 2013}}</ref> where the [[Kell House Museum]] is located today.

{{US Census population
|1910= 2928
|1920= 3204
|1930= 2368
|1940= 2458
|1950= 2327
|1960= 1933
|1970= 1833
|1980= 2369
|1990= 2088
|2000= 2158
|2010= 2064
|2020= 1837
|footnote=<ref name="CensusView">{{cite web|url=http://censusviewer.com/city/OK/Waurika|access-date=February 18, 2016|title=Census Viewer: Waurika, Oklahoma Population|publisher=Moonshadow Mobile, Inc.}}</ref><ref name="EOHC-Waurika"/>
}}