The first post office in this area was "Upper Squaw Creek", established in September 1875, by Carroll Baird.

Baird homesteaded along Squaw Creek, less than half a mile west of the present-day site of Ola.

[3] Nellie Ireton Mills[4] writes that the Bairds built their cabin where the old Indian trail crosses the creek.

Mills writes that first wedding in the community was between Fred Hoffman (aka Huffman) and school teacher Ella Drake on March 6, 1879.

When the post office was re-established in July 1882, Baird chose the name of Ola, "for an old Swede that happened along."