[1][2] It became an oilfield boomtown shortly after the discovery of the Burbank field in 1920.
[3] It was substantial enough that beginning July 2nd, 1923 and completing in early 1924, the Osage Railway extended its trackage northwesterly from Shidler, Oklahoma through Webb City to terminate in Lyman.
[3] But the oil production decline in the area starting in the late 1920s, and the Great Depression, hit the town hard.
[3] The school closed in 1929, the district merging with Webb City.
[3] Oil refining in the area tapered off after World War II, and the Osage Railway was abandoned in 1953.