The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHoyt is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. The community is 3.9 miles (6.3 km) west-northwest of Whitefield. A post office was established at Hoyt, Indian Territory on August 19, 1890. It was named for Babe Hoyt, a local ferryboat operator. The post office closed on April 17, 2004; it still has its own ZIP code, 74440. As of the 2020 census, Hoyt had a population of 82. It is home to the Hoyt School, which is no longer in use, but has been nominated for classification as an official Oklahoma landmark. At the time of its founding, Hoyt was located in the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.
Half of its homes were built before 1962.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hoyt 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 Hoyt’s history is told.
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Hoyt, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Hoyt is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Hoyt has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Stigler School Gymnasium-Auditorium in Stigler, 9.8 miles away.
Hoyt 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.