[6] This was a subagency of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency at Darlington, north of Fort Reno, and his mission was to build a reservation school and to teach the Cheyenne and Arapaho to farm.

[6] His wife, Ida M. Hammon, was postmaster when a post office was established in their home on June 30, 1894.

[6] The townsite was originally located in Custer County,[6] but when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railroad (later known as the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway) laid track west of the town in 1910, the majority of the town was moved west into Roger Mills County to be near the railroad.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.9 km2), all land.

29.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.