Beaver has chilly winters and hot summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 95°, a January night drops to 21°, and about 11 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
About one in three working residents works right in Beaver
About one in 3 of Beaver’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Oklahoma City (7%), Liberal (5%) and Guymon (4%). Half commute less than 28 miles.
Beaver’s public schools outperform 55% of Oklahoma districts
The public schools Beaver’s kids attend outperform 55% of Oklahoma’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
Beaver is a town in and the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States, in the Oklahoma Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,280. Beaver hosts the annual World Cow Chip Throwing Championship. Originally known as Beaver City, the town began as the site of a fur trading post in 1879 and was planned to be the capital of the proposed Cimarron Territory. The Federal government never recognized the proposed territory, but Beaver remained a center of business and law enforcement in the area. In 1890 it became the seat of Seventh County, encompassing the entire Oklahoma Panhandle, and later the county seat of Beaver County.
