The Hooker Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the local legacy of Hooker, Oklahoma through collecting documents, photographs and heirlooms that tell the story of our people. Hooker is in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle at the intersection of U.S. Highways 54 and 64 and State Highway 94, approximately twenty-two miles northeast of Guymon. As part of No Man's Land, the area stood outside the boundaries of the surrounding territories until it was attached to Oklahoma Territory in 1890. Mainly cattlemen utilized the land, but in the 1880s settlers began to homestead on this public strip. In 1902 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway laid tracks from Liberal, Kansas, southwest to Texas at present Texhoma. That year the U.S. Postal Service designated the future town a post office. According to regional historian Henry Chrisman, the name honored OX ranch foreman John "Hooker" Threlkeld. In 1904 the Chicago Townsite Company oversaw the organization and sale of town lots.