The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town of Mountain Park began as a trading post named Burford, near the Wichita Mountains in southern Oklahoma Territory. A post office was established at Burford in August 1901, just after the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation opened for settlement by non-Indians. In February 1902, the town that had sprung up around the trading post and changed its name to Mountain Park. Fires destroyed most of the wood-frame buildings along Main Street in 1906 and 1908. The town rebuilt with all brick structures.
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Start Mountain Park’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountain Park’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mountain Park, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Mountain Park is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mountain Park has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Joyce House in Snyder, 3.2 miles away.
Mountain Park 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.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.