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Harper County, Oklahoma

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1907formed
3,272pop. 2020
19cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Buffalo, Laverne, Woodward.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Oklahoma is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Harper titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Beagley-Stinson Archeological SiteLaverneSite1978
Buffalo City Park PavilionBuffaloStructure1988
Clover HotelLaverneBuilding1984
Cooper Bison Kill SiteFort SupplySite2002
Farmers' Co-op ElevatorBuffaloStructure1983
Feuquay ElevatorBuffaloStructure1983
Fox HotelLaverneBuilding1978
Harper County CourthouseBuffaloBuilding1984
I.O.O.F. Building of BuffaloBuffaloBuilding1983
Laverne's North Main Street DistrictLaverneDistrict1984
M.K. and T. Depot in LaverneLaverneBuilding1984
Monhollow Artificial Stone HouseBuffaloBuilding1983
Old Settler's Irrigation DitchRosstonSite1983
Page SoddyBuffaloBuilding1983
Patsy's Island SiteWoodwardSite2004
Sharp LumberyardLaverneBuilding1984
Smith No. 2 SiteWoodwardSite2004

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Harper was formed in 1907 (1907-11-16) from Woodward.

HARPER created from WOODWARD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Harper County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

8,1895,7303,27219001920196020002020
19001920194019501960198020002020
8,0897,6236,4545,9775,9564,7153,5623,272

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

19 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed
NameLatLon
Doby Springs Cemetery36.83809-99.78188
Fern Cemetery36.66731-99.37617
Goldenrod Cemetery36.85555-99.50027
Gyp Valley Cemetery36.75441-99.69177
High Point Cemetery36.82788-99.60213
Highland Cemetery36.65694-99.92806
Hopewell Cemetery36.87082-99.51681
Kibby Cemetery36.72418-99.55546
Laverne Memorial Cemetery36.68003-99.88403
Otter Creek Cemetery36.87811-99.65811
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery36.87114-99.89152
Pleasant Valley Cemetery36.91364-99.81818
Rock Church Cemetery36.59734-99.4222
Rose Hill Cemetery36.79072-99.81765
Speermoore Cemetery36.60832-99.98121
Spring Valley Cemetery36.82911-99.36742
Willard Cemetery36.95883-99.72025
Willow Creek Cemetery36.9688-99.57526
Zion Lutheran Cemetery36.9004-99.48508
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Charleston36.85579-99.4387

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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