page_title: Hallett, Oklahoma
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hallett, Oklahoma / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hallett, Oklahoma
context_page_description: Hallett is a town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located nineteen miles southeast of Pawnee, the county seat of Pawnee County, on State Highway 99 slightly north of U.S. Highway 412. The population was 125 at the 2010 census, a 25.6 percent decline from 168 at the 2000 census.
context_section_description: The town of Hallett was founded on December 8, 1904 at the junction of the Arkansas Valley and Western Railway (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) and the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (later the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway). The developer, Hallett Townsite Company, was named for Charles H. Hallett, an officer in the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry. A post office was established in the town on May 19, 1905, and the first newspaper, the weekly Hallett Herald was published.
  Hallett became a trade center for the local agriculture industry. The discovery of Hallett oil field brought a brief boom in 1908 and again in the 1920s. Population peaked at 279 in 1920, then declined to a low of 120 in 1950.
  An explosion at the Aerlex Fireworks plant killed 21 people on June 25, 1985.
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