Foraker
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town in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Osage
- Total
- 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km )
- Land
- 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,270 ft (390 m)
- Density
- 69.2/sq mi (26.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 539/918
- Fips code
- 40-26750
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Foraker
- Population
- 18
- Area
- 0.555818
- Elevation
- 390
- Households
- 17
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- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 52765
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Foraker is a town in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named for Ohio Senator Joseph B. Foraker. The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is southeast of town. The official population peaked at 415 in 1910 and has declined steadily since 1930. As of the 2020 census, Foraker had a population of 18.
Foraker was listed as a ghost town in the 1977 book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma. The author, John Wesley Morris, quoted one long-time resident as saying: "Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone – only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger."
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