Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Oak Ranch, a hamlet in Rawlins county, is located in the Beaver creek valley 20 miles southwest of Atwood, the county-seat, and 10 miles south of McDonald, the nearest railroad station. It receives mail from Colby. Oakvale, one of the inland hamlets of Smith county, is located 9 miles southeast of Smith Center, the county seat, and 8 miles southwest of Lebanon, from which it receives mail by rural route. The population according to the census of 1910 was 23.

Page 379 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.