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Fargo
Oklahomatown
Fargo
Total population
307
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Fargo is a town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 312 at the time of the 2020 census. Fargo, like many towns in the region, has never fully recovered from the Dust Bowl years.
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History
In 1887, the Southern Kansas Railway (a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) built tracks through the area. The area was opened to European-American settlement by the Cherokee Outlet Opening land run in 1893. During the land run, David C. Ooley filed a claim on land near Boggy Creek and opened a general store there. He later acquired 80 additional acres along the railroad and built a second store, and acquired postal designation as Whitehead in October 1893. The town's postal designation was changed to Oleta in August 1901, and changed again to Fargo in February 1905. When Oklahoma's statehood was established in 1907, Fargo was incorporated from Oleta Township, with a population of 436. In 1909, a fire destroyed all of the east side buildings on Main Street.
Geography
Oklahoma State Highway 15, running generally southwest-northeast, passes through the locale, with S County Rd 190 serving as the north-south Main Street through town. Fargo is northeast of Gage and southwest of Woodward off State 15. West Woodward Airport is about 9 miles northeast of town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
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Nearby places in Oklahoma
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- Laverne27.5 mi away · pop. 904
- Selman30.4 mi away
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- Quinlan32.5 mi away
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- Seiling41.9 mi away
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Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Books about Fargo
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Recent natural events nearby
- Wildfire Semi 270, Woodward, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-01 · 11 mi
- Wildfire Burnt Canyon, Woodward, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-15 · 25 mi
- Wildfire Black Kettle, Roger Mills, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-14 · 43 mi
- Wildfire Calvary Creek, Washita, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-15 · 91 mi
- Wildfire GRACEMONT, Caddo, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-13 · 106 mi
- Wildfire Old Deer, Carson, TexasWildfires · 2026-08-23 · 109 mi
- Wildfire 2690, Caddo, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-21 · 116 mi
- Wildfire MEERS, Comanche, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-08 · 118 mi
Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • NASA EONET