Morrison, OK

Morrison is a small agricultural town in southeastern Noble County, 16 miles east of Perry on U.S. Highway 64. It emerged in 1894 on land in the former Cherokee Outlet, which had been part of Osage hunting grounds before the Cherokee Nation's reservation was opened to non-Indian settlement in the September 1893 land run. Roselda Morrison owned the land where the town formed, and the post office and platted town took the Morrison name. Black Bear Creek runs less than a mile north, tying the town to the Cimarron River country.

School athletics give Morrison a regional reputation far beyond its population. The Wildcats have won 13 eight-man football state championships and one Class A title, then put together a 90-game winning streak from 1988 to 1995. That record sits alongside a present-day town with an agricultural base, a U.S. 64 main street, and the nearby Cimarron Turnpike linking the area to Perry and the wider north-central Oklahoma road network. Morrison's story moves from land-run settlement to school-centered community, with the creek, highway, and football field marking different parts of its history.