History · Gould

Gould’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Gould. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
1historic places
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Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma, 1938 · Library of Congress

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Gould is a town in Harmon County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Gould had a population of 103.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 141 to 103 (-27%). Half of its homes were built before 1968.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Gould 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.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1938Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, …LOC
1940–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Gould, decade by decade

1940s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Gould

1 place in Gould is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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In Oklahomaby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
2007first listedGould Community Building

Where they are

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Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Abandoned farm home in wheat field near Gould, Oklahoma (1938) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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