Historical Marker Program

Run of ’92

Kingfisher County
Location: on OK-33, two miles west of intersection with US-81
Coordinates: 35.854917, -97.958167
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: American Indians; Land Openings; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

East boundary of Indian Country–98 degrees west longitude. West of this line lay the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Each member of their two tribes had been allotted 160 acres before the surplus land was opened to settlers at noon April 19, 1892. They ran west from this line for homesteads. Gov. A.J.Seay of Oklahoma Territory was living at Kingfisher. His grave is near.