Place in Oklahoma, United States
Gibbon is a populated place in Grant County, Oklahoma.[1][2] It is southeast of Manchester and northwest of Wakita.[3]
While never formally incorporated, the town was given a post office on March 26, 1896 by early settler William H McGibbon, to which he attached the “Gibbon” name.[4] Located on a rail line, the town had two grain elevators, two general stores, a railroad depot, a lumber yard, a cheese factory, a stockyard and a hotel by 1915.[4] Unfortunately, the highway (Oklahoma State Highway 132) bypassed the town, and the drought in the 1930s was hard on the farmers in the area.[4] Businesses left, and the post office closed in 1945.[4] Few vestiges of a town remain.[4]
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