Yeager

History

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture the present community was named for a Creek allottee, Hattie Yargee. The town was developed along the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway, which was built between 1900 and 1901. When a post office was established on February 6, 1902, the Post Office Department changed the spelling of the office to the present Yeager. An oil and gas field opened in the town in 1917 and helped support the railroad industry in the 1920s. In 1917, the Yeager Oil Field opened, producing 25 to 2500 barrels of oil per day. As the Yeager field developed during the 1920s, the railroad's revenue dramatically increased by transporting lumber, rig timber, and oil-field equipment to the community. By 1918 citizens had established a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ. In 1918 R. L. Polk's Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory estimated Yeager's population at 350. In the mid-1940s Fred A. Ashburn and C. D. Wood operated grocery and filling stations. By the mid-1950s Yeager had a grocery and a filling station. After a fire destroyed the school building on January 18, 1957, voters approved a bond issue to rebuild the facility.

Geography

Yeager is located six miles north of Holdenville. The town lies at an elevation of 870 feet above sea level and has an average of 39 inches of rain and 6.1 inches of snowfall annually. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• THOMAS IES
  Middle · Holdenville · 361 students · 12:1 ratio
• ETHEL REED ES
  Elementary · Holdenville · 336 students · 14:1 ratio
• HOLDENVILLE HS
  High · Holdenville · 282 students · 12.8:1 ratio
• WETUMKA ES
  Elementary · Wetumka · 278 students · 14.6:1 ratio
• MOSS ES
  Elementary · Holdenville · 179 students · 12.8:1 ratio
• WETUMKA HS
  High · Wetumka · 125 students · 15.6:1 ratio
• MOSS HS
  High · Holdenville · 77 students · 15.4:1 ratio