Delaware, OK

Delaware is a town in Nowata County, Oklahoma, United States. The town is named for the Eastern Delaware tribe that moved into this area from Kansas after signing a treaty with the Cherokee Nation in 1867. In 1889, the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad built a line through this area. The short version is that Delaware carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Delaware: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Delaware constructed a switch at the present townsite, which it named Comana Switch. Delaware is on rolling prairie just west of the Verdigris River.