Skedee, OK

Skedee is a town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. Skedee is northwest of Tulsa, northeast of Stillwater, and southeast of Ponca City. Skedee was known as "Lemert", a name which referred to the local landowners, the Lemert family. A 1926 statue of Osage Chief Bacon Rind and Colonel Ellsworth Walters, a Skedee resident who was an oil lease auctioneer for the Osage Nation in the 1920s, stands in the main intersection of the town. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Skedee, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Skedee, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. In 1902, when the post office opened, the town was renamed "Skedee", after the Skidi Pawnee.