Erick, OK

Erick is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,000 residents. A post office, originally named Dennis, was established to serve the local community on November 8, 1900. Erick community developed along the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad line, built in 1902. The town is in the Erick Public Schools district. In Erick, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Erick, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places.

The officers freed themselves, but the trail of the criminals had gone cold. Efforts to put "Historic Route 66" back onto maps as a tourist attraction date to the late 1980s, with the first Route 66 Association established three years after the last section of original highway was bypassed by the interstate highway in 1984. Erick is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66.