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Bearden is a town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. The locale is old enough to appear on a 1911 Rand McNally map of the county. The population was 135 at the 2020 Census. it is the birthplace of Benjamin Roden, a religious leader & founder of the Branch Davidians

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 133 people in 2010, 135 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1988.

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Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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