Cashion is a town in Kingfisher and Logan counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The Logan County portion of Cashion is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 850 as of the 2020 United States census, up 6% from the 802 reported at the 2010 census.
History
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Cashion began as the town of Downs, Oklahoma on a hill south of the Cimarron River. The Oklahoma legislature had once passed a bill to make Downs the capitol of Oklahoma Territory, but the bill was vetoed a few days later by George W. Steele, the first governor of the territory. Once when later Governor Abraham Jefferson Seay was on the road and spent the night in Downs, the townspeople claimed they were the capitol for that night because the governor had the Great Seal of Oklahoma Territory with him at the time. The site was on land owned by the Guthrie & Kingfisher Improvement Company, which sold lots, with the area becoming the town of Cashion. Roy, a graduate of the Hennessy Class of 1897, had a strong passion and belief in the freedom of the Cuban people. His graduation speech was entitled "Liberty for Cuba". When the territorial governor asked for volunteers, Cashion's name was first one on the list. He passed through this area on his way to join Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War. On July 1, 1898, Cashion was killed by a gunshot to the head in the famous charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba. He is believed to be the first Oklahoman to die in battle on foreign soil. The population dropped from 291 in 1930 to 232 in 1940, then to its all-time low of 182 in 1950.
In August 2020, Cashion made national news after a police officer, Charlie Missinne, tasered 65 year old Debra Hamil after a traffic stop for a broken car light. Hamil was said by the officer to be "resisting arrest" The woman later accepted a plea bargain for misdemeanor charges of "resisting an officer, obstruction, eluding and officer and operating a vehicle with defective equipment."
Geography
Cashion is located in southeastern Kingfisher County with the town limits extending east into Logan County. It is east-southeast of Kingfisher and the same distance southwest of Guthrie.
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2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Cashion had a population of 850. The median age was 33.6 years. 30.8% of residents were under the age of 18 and 11.9% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 97.7 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 94.1 males age 18 and over.
There were 318 households in Cashion, of which 49.1% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 55.0% were married-couple households, 14.5% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 25.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 20.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
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| White || 668 || 78.6%
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| Black or African American || 3 || 0.4%
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| American Indian and Alaska Native || 48 || 5.6%
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| Asian || 1 || 0.1%
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| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0 || 0.0%
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| Some other race || 14 || 1.6%
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| Two or more races || 116 || 13.6%
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| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 55 || 6.5%
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2000 census
As of the census