The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBache is an unincorporated community in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The community is located on U.S. Route 270, 7 miles (11 km) east of McAlester. As of the 2020 census, Bache had a population of 105. A post office was established at Bache, Indian Territory on February 26, 1903. It closed on July 29, 1995. At the time of its founding, the community was located in the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation. The community was named for mining operator Franklin Bache. Bache was linked to McAlester, Krebs, Alderson, Haileyville, and Hartshorne by the Pittsburg County Railway interurban from 1903 to 1946.
Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bache yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bache’s history is told.
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Bache, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Bache is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Bache has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Hokey's Drugstore in Krebs, 4.3 miles away.
Bache and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.