It may refer to a bawdy cartoon and joke magazine called "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" which was popular in the day.

Another theory is that the Osage residents imitated the sound of oil pumps and engines by saying "whizbang".

[5] Another theory suggests that it was called Whizbang because "people whizzed all day and banged all night.

Highway robbers frequently robbed travelers along the road to Shidler at a place called "Pistol Hill".

A man called "Jose Alvarado", whose real name was Bert Bryant, was hired by oil companies to keep the peace.

Marland and Frank Phillips, and rodeo star and Oscar-winning actor Ben Johnson, Jr. Today the rubble and remains of Whizbang can easily be seen from the road.