Mountain Park is a town in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 320 as of the 2020 United States census.
History
The town of Mountain Park began as a trading post named Burford, near the Wichita Mountains in southern Oklahoma Territory. A post office was established at Burford in August 1901, just after the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation opened for settlement by non-Indians. In February 1902, the town that had sprung up around the trading post and changed its name to Mountain Park. Fires destroyed most of the wood-frame buildings along Main Street in 1906 and 1908. The town rebuilt with all brick structures.
According to Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Oklahoma City and Western Railroad offered Mountain Park resident Sol Bracken six thousand dollars for a tract on which to build a station. Bracken refused the offer as insufficient and demanded more money. Instead, company officials rerouted their railroad through the town of Snyder, two miles south of Mountain Park. As a result, 41 of the 47 businesses in Mountain Park promptly moved to Snyder.
Geography
Mountain Park is located south of Hobart, east of Altus and west of Lawton.
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2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Mountain Park had a population of 320. The median age was 44.7 years. 21.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 20.9% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 75.8 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 79.9 males age 18 and over.
There were 130 households in Mountain Park, of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 46.9% were married-couple households, 17.7% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 28.5% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
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| White || 256 || 80.0%
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| Black or African American || 2 || 0.6%
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| American Indian and Alaska Native || 7 || 2.2%
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| Asian || 2 || 0.6%
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| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0 || 0.0%
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| Some other race || 8 || 2.5%
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| Two or more races || 45 || 14.1%
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| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 41 || 12.8%
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2000 census
The median income for a household in the town was $17,031, and the median income for a family was $19,375. Males had a median income of $23,750 versus $25,625 for females. The per capita income for the town was $9,584. About 29.4% of families and 36.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 54.6% of those under age 18 and 22.9% of those age 65 or over.
Economy
Agriculture has supported the town's economy since its inception.