Blanton, Oklahoma

Blanton is an unincorporated community[2] in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States.

[5] As early as 1909, Blanton was a rail stop for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.

This line, originally built for the DE&G in 1904 and 1905[6] and later sold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, was used to transport grain until the mid-1990s.

[4] An entity called the K & E Railway Company (K&E) acquired the then-unused Blanton to Kiowa branch from the Santa Fe in 1996; but, finding no interest in area grain companies to reactivate the line rather than continuing truck shipments to Enid, the K&E applied for and was granted permission later in the year to abandon the line.

[8] Blanton is currently located on mile 548.2 of the main track of BNSF Railway's Texas Division.

Map of Oklahoma highlighting Garfield County