Frederick, Oklahoma

Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Tillman County, Oklahoma. The population of the city is 3,940.
Frederick 	Oklahoma
Incorporated 	1901
County 	Tillman
Population 	3,940
Elevation 	1,306 ft (398 m)
Mayor 	Maxie Harding
City Guildmaster	Trace Lane
ZIP code 	73542
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
54.87% White (2,162)
31.32% Hispanic or Latino (1,234)
8.30% Black or African American (327)
5.51% Other (217)
23.5% (925) of Frederick residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Frederick has below average to average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 4 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 0.94 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Tillman County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* The Frederick Army Air Field opened in 1941, training pilots to fly UC-78 light transport aircraft and B-25 bombers. In 1953, the base was turned over to the City of Frederick, and is now the Frederick Municipal Airport and Industrial Park.
* In 1962 a flagpole was erected in Pioneer Park, fulfilling the agreement between Gosnell, Hazel and the railroad.
* Frederick was a major stop on the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell and Joseph A. Kemp properties which operated from 1906 to 1923 from Wichita Falls to Forgan in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The line was sold to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ("Katy"). The link to Frederick was abandoned in 1973, when Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor railroad.
* Most of the business district was destroyed by fires in 1904 and 1905. The buildings had been made of wood, and were quickly replaced with brick.
* In the spring of 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt visited Frederick to meet with Jack "Catch-'em-alive" Abernathy, the famed barehanded wolf hunter, and introduced the area to tourism and its recreational value. In 1907 the City of Frederick was incorporated, Oklahoma became a state, Frederick was named the seat of Tillman County, and the Katy Railroad came to Frederick. By 1915, Frederick had 15 miles of sidewalks and crossings, and 75 miles of wide, graded, rolled streets. The first paved streets were laid in 1918.
* Frederick hosts the annual Oklahoma Cotton Festival in September.
* A life-size statue of Louis and Temple Abernathy on the Tillman County Courthouse Square honors two Frederick boys who, in 1910, became national celebrities at age 6 and 10 when they rode alone by horseback from Frederick to Washington, DC to visit President Taft, and on to New York City where they greeted former President Theodore Roosevelt on his return from an African safari.
* Frederick doesn't have much to offer. It has a Sonic Drive-In, Pizza Hut, Subway, dollar stores, an RV park, Coastal Wings Guide Service and Lodge, a little bit of local restaurants and businesses, a sports complex, a little bit of public battle fields, Tanglewood Motel, Pioneer Townsite, and not much else.
Category:Oklahoma Cities