It was named for Ernest W. Marland, an oilman from nearby Ponca City who later became a governor of Oklahoma.

The brothers built stockyards adjacent to the railroad on the south side of their ranch for shipping cattle.

A community began forming nearby, with grain elevator, a lumber yard and a general store.

[4] In 1917, the Millers decided to move the town to the other side of the tracks, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north.

But the Great Depression of the 1930s bankrupted the Miller Brothers ranch, and the Three Sands Field went dry, stunting further town growth.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), all land.