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Walters, OK - History
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Welcome to the Walters Home page. The Walters Home page provides as much information as possible on Walters. Knowing Walters’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Walters’s Home page, you will also find Walters’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Walters has a population of 2701. 51.4% of Walters’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.6 are female. 49.4% of Walters is married and 65.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $83,171, and the average rent is $607. Household median income in Walters is $44,318, and the individual median income is $23,906. Walters’s Ethnic is the following: White(74.8%), Native(14.3%), Hispanic(9.5%), Multiple(9.4%), Other(1%), Black(0.6%).
The land that is present-day Oklahoma was first settled by prehistoric American Indians including the Clovis 11500 BCE, Folsom 10600 BCE and Plainview 10000 BCE cultures. Western explorers came to the region in the 16th century, with Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado visiting in 1541. Most of the region during this time was settled by the Wichita and Caddo peoples.
Around the 1700s, two tribes from the North, the Comanches and Kiowas, migrated to the Oklahoma and Texas region.For most of the 18th century, the Oklahoma region was under French control as part of Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson brought the area under United States control.
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which removed American Indian tribes and relocated them to Indian Territory. The southern part of the territory was originally assigned to the Choctaw and Chickasaw, until the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty allotted the southwest portion of the Choctaw and Chickasaw's lands to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache. The City of Walters was organized on August 6, 1901, under the original name of McKnight, Indian Territory.
Application for a post office was made, and it was determined that a town in Harmon County had already taken the name of McKnight. This required that the name be changed. The name of Walters was chosen, in honor of W. R. Walters, but the "s" was not included on the post office application, so the post office was named Walter.The city finally grew large enough to meet the requirements for a government patent, and one was granted in June 1904.
On August 12, 1912, an election was held to form a new County (Cotton) from a portion of Comanche County. The election was successful and Cotton County became the last county formed in Oklahoma on August 28, 1912. Shortly thereafter, another election was held to determine whether Walters or Temple would become the county seat; on December 2, 1912, Walters won by 282 votes, officially becoming the seat of Cotton County.
The names of Walter and Walters were used interchangeably and confusingly until June 1917, when an application was made to Congress to officially change the post office name to Walters.
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