Ripley, OK

Ripley is a town in southeastern Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The town was named after Edward Ripley, the 14th president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway developed Ripley and auctioned the first lots on January 13, 1900. Allen Williamson Bridge - Memorial bridge near Ripley, named after the Oklahoma Representative Allen Williamson. The Hopkins Sandstone House and Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Payne County, Oklahoma. The short version is that Ripley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Ripley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Ripley is on the Cimarron River; it is southeast of Stillwater east on State Highway 51 and 7 miles south on State Highway 108), and west-northwest of Cushing. Ripley includes the first wagon bridge across the Cimarron River.