[4] Drumright and nearby Cushing were at the center of the large, productive Cushing-Drumright Oil Field in the 1910s and 1920s.

The town sprang up nearly overnight in 1912, after wildcatter Tom Slick struck oil on the farm of Frank Wheeler, causing a rush of speculators, oilfield workers, and merchants into the area.

Local landowners James W. Fulkerson and Aaron Drumright platted a townsite, which was initially called Fulkerson, The town was renamed for Aaron Drumright, a farmer and later local businessman whose farm was part of the townsite.

[5] Oil workers flooded into town so quickly that they lived in tents or shacks made from box cars, causing the community to be known locally as "Ragtown."

Hotels and boarding houses were constructed next, as well as amenities like gambling dens, dance halls, and roadhouses, where the workers could spend their money.

In 1914, the city built a two-story building of stone to serve as an elementary and high school.

It was called Washington School, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRIS 81000462).

The Drumright Oilers teams played as members of the Class D level Western Association and Oklahoma State League between 1920 and 1923.

[8][9] In the fall of 1922, Babe Ruth and his New York Yankees teammate Bob Meusel played in an exhibition game in Drumright while on a barnstorming tour.

The Department Heads are: City Manager Shawn Gibson City Clerk Shawna Jackson Fire Chief Brett Lunsford Police Chief Chris Reinke Street Superintendent Kevin Harris Director of Public Works Mychael Medlock Library Director Brenda Grisham Chamber of Commerce President Angela Titus City Hall is located at 424 E Broadway.

The Chamber of Commerce is located at 103 W Broadway Today, manufacturing, oil, gas, education, medicine and agriculture are the largest local industries.

Drumright is home to an area vocational and technical school, Central Technology Center, which opened August 22, 1970, and employs about 125 people.

A tourist attraction is the Tidewater Winery that opened in a historic building that once served as a school for the children of refinery workers.

[18] Central Tech offers full-time and short-term classes in a large variety of fields.

[21] The Drumright Historical Museum is housed in a 1915 Santa Fe Depot which is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has old railroad cars, but focuses on the unique history of the first great oil discovery in Oklahoma in 1912, leading to the Drumright Field producing more oil than any other in the world by 1917.

The Deborah Guillot Bright Nature Preserve will be built at the corner of E Oak and N Oklahoma.