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Welcome to the Rush Springs Home page. The Rush Springs Home page provides as much information as possible on Rush Springs. Knowing Rush Springs’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Rush Springs’s Home page, you will also find Rush Springs’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Rush Springs has a population of 1101. 50.2% of Rush Springs’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 45.6% of Rush Springs is married and 64.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $64,289, and the average rent is $538. Household median income in Rush Springs is $35,795, and the individual median income is $22,050. Rush Springs’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.5%), Native(11.7%), Multiple(6.3%), Hispanic(2.7%), Other(2.3%), Black(0.3%).


The Wichita people established a village about 1850 near some springs on Rush Creek. (The present-day town of Rush Springs later developed about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of here.) Cattlemen watered their herds of cattle they were driving north from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail, which passed east of here.


On October 1, 1858, an event known as the Battle of the Wichita Village occurred near here, with spillover to the Wichita when the US Army destroyed their crops.That year, Brigadier General David S. Briggs had ordered Brevet Major Earl Van Dorn to take command of the Second Cavalry at Fort Belknap, Texas.


He was directed to proceed north of the Red River into Indian Territory and forcibly restrain belligerent Comanche warriors who were raiding settlements. Van Dorn and his men stopped at Camp Radziminski in Indian Territory. Van Dorn and his men advanced on the Comanche, who were camped on Rush Creek near a Wichita village.


The Army was apparently unaware that the two tribes were conducting a peace conference.Van Dorn and his men attacked the Comanche camp about dawn on October 1, 1858, catching the warriors completely off guard. In the aftermath of the attack, the troops found that the Comanche had lost seventy people, mostly men but also some tribeswomen who had accompanied them.


Any survivors had fled. The army casualties were four men dead and one missing, who was presumed killed. Major Van Dorn was seriously wounded, but survived to fight again. The army was reported to have set fire to the Wichita fields nearby, destroying their food crop and endangering their survival. The Wichita fled to Fort Arbuckle to seek assistance from the U.S.


government.In 1871, supplies bound for Fort Sill (which had been founded in 1869), were brought through Rush Springs. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (also known as the M-K-T or Katy) had been completed to the Choctaw Nation community of Caddo. Supplies were transferred here to wagons to transport them to Rush Springs.


Freight and stage travel from Caddo to Rush Springs was discontinued about 1885.The first post office was designated as Parr, and opened at the Samuel M. Huntley ranch house in July 1883. The house was southeast of Rush Springs. When the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway (usually called simply the Rock Island) completed its line through Rush Springs in July 1892, the post office relocated into the town and was renamed for it.


2 square miles (5.2 km2) of town was surveyed and platted. It was incorporated on November 21, 1898. At that time, the community was located within Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation.By 1900 the community had 518 residents and 588 by 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. At that time, new county jurisdictions were set up, and Rush Springs was located in Grady County, Oklahoma. During the Great Depression, a Civilian Conservation Corps project was initiated on the east side of Rush Springs to provide employment and improve the region.


Young men were paid to construct terraces and ponds and to restore vegetation by replanting trees. The project camp was opened June 18, 1933, and closed July 20, 1942.


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