Official Name: | Parkland, Oklahoma |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Oklahoma#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Parkland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Oklahoma |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Lincoln |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation M: | 294 |
Coordinates: | 35.8401°N -96.8422°W |
Area Code: | 539/918 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 40-00700[1] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1096445 |
Parkland is a small unincorporated community in northern Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. It is 4miles south of Agra. Its name was adopted "to describe the character of the townsite".
The land where Parkland is located was opened to white settlement by the Land Run of 1891 on September 28 of that year. The Parkland Post Office was established some three years later, on December 19, 1894, with McShelly Fishback as the first postmaster.[2] The Parkland Post Office was closed on June 15, 1918.[3]
A tornado on May 30, 1897, demolished several houses of the town, killing two and wounding several.[4]
Free lots in the town of Kendrick were offered to business owners in Parkland if they would move when Kendrick was platted in 1902.[5]
The towns of Chandler and Stroud were nearby railroad points. The Parkland Telephone company was organized and built telephone lines from Chandler to Stroud, linking them with Parkland and Cushing. Later these lines were purchased by the Arkansas Valley Telephone Company.[6]