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Yukon Chamber of Commerce

Overview

Founded on a site overlooking the North Canadian River bottom lands, Yukon had its beginning with the filing of property deeds by A.N. Spencer in February 1891.

With the railroad, flour mill and grain elevators, stores, schools, churches, and rich farm land, the population grew. With our growth and that of Oklahoma City, Yukon became a prosperous and delightful place to live.

Located on historic Route 66, and just 15 minutes from downtown Oklahoma City, Yukon is known for its festivals, museums and famous citizens, such as country music star Garth Brooks, western film legend Dale Robertson, and the popular Cross Canadian Ragweed band.

History

Before Yukon was opened to the 1889 land run, it was part of the historical Chisholm cattle trail. A trail that started in Texas and ended at the Kansas railheads

Seeing the potential of the area, A.N. Spencer, a cattleman and railroad builder from Texas, filed a plat of the area on February 14, 1891 which contained 25 homes, one bank, two real estate offices, two restaurants, a lumber yard, a hardware store, a grocery, a livery stable, two saloons, a blacksmith shop, a printing office, a barber shop and another one about completed. The town voted to incorporate in 1901.

Along with farming, the largest industry was the Yukon Mill and Grain Company that shipped flour and feed throughout the south and overseas.

Yukon’s growth was also supported by a large Czech culture which celebrates their heritage during the annual Czech Festival on the first Saturday in October.

Education

Starting from a one-room school in 1891, the school system has grown to include a 11/12 grade high school, 9/10 grade high school, two 6/7/8 grade middle schools and seven K/5 grade elementary schools. The school system has five elected school board members, one superintendent and two assistant superintendents. Check with Rhoades on this.

Canadian Valley Technology Center

Canadian Valley Technology Center (CV Tech) provides career training in more than two dozen fields, including Auto Service, Computer Networking, Nursing, Pre-Engineering, Welding and much more. Tuition is free to high school students and adults under 24. Students can earn up to 33 hours of college credit at just $8 per hour in several programs. CV Tech also provides short-term continuing education classes for adults and customized training to businesses and industries in the Canadian Valley area. Their main campuses are in Chickasha and El Reno and have a new Cowan/Czech Hall campus just south of Yukon.

Civic Organizations

Yukon has several active civic clubs. For the adults; Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Toast Masters, and sports booster clubs. For the youth; The Optimist Club which supports football, basketball, and baseball; 4H, FAA, and a Spirit League which supports the youth with physical handicaps.

Recreation/Parks

The City of Yukon sponsors nine parks, two indoor sports facilities, and one activity center that can be used for banquets or business meetings.

Two of Yukon’s parks, Yukon City Park and Chisholm Trail Park, are connected and contains approximately 100 acres with walking trails, swimming pool, outdoor sports facilities, gazebos, a ten acre pond for fishing, picnic facilities, and the award winning handicapped accessible Freedom Trail Playground.

Taylor Park is the newest park with a BMX competitive bike track, football and soccer fields.

Entertainment

Yukon has a five screen and a nine screen theaters that show first run movies.

Plays are also performed through out the year.

Dinning/Shopping/Hotel

Major chain restaurants like Chili’s, Santa Fe Steakhouse, Louis, Johnny Carinos, Primo’s Italian, Rib Crib, and Alfredo’s draw the community as well as visitors off of I-40 to their tables.

For a small city, Yukon has drawn the following major chain stores and hotels; Kohl’s, Target, Staples, Lowes, Pets Mart, Wal-Mart, Dollar General, Big Lot, Cato, Hampton Inn and Holiday Express Inn.

Health Care

Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital.

Yukon also offers life care facilities.

Nostalgia

The Mother Road, Route 66 travels through Yukon’s downtown Main Street where visitors can wander through antique shops and sleep in original Route 66 motels.

At night the beacon of lights on top of the Yukon Flour Mill spelling out “Yukon Best Flour” is still a big visitor attraction.

Churches

From the few tiny churches at the beginning, Yukon now has many churches of many denominations. There is a Ministerial Alliance and more groups working to provide aid to citizens. Many clubs and organizations support most every type of service for the community.

Utilities

Oklahoma’s major utility companies supply the community and businesses with electrical and natural gas power and the municipal water supply exceeds the EPA and Oklahoma state safety standards.

Government

The Yukon city government consists of a city manager and a five-person city council witch includes a Mayor. To assist the council, Yukon has Planning, Park, and Adjustment boards and a Recycle commission. The City manages numerous departments including, water, streets, fire, police, parks, treatment and supply, sanitation, billing, equipment maintenance and building maintenance.

Market Access

Interstate 40 provides easy access to Yukon and brings visitor as far as the Texas boarder and Oklahoma panhandle into Yukon. To the east of Yukon, the Kilpatrick Turnpike allows quick assess to Yukon from Interstate 35.

Yukon is served by three airparks and the International Will Rogers Airport which is just twenty minutes away.

Tourism

As well as being on Route 66 and a part of the old Chisholm cattle trail, Yukon is a Mecca for tourism with annual festivals as the Chisholm Trail, Czech, Easter on the Prairie, Festival of the Child, Freedom Trail Fourth of July and Christmas in the Park. Yukon is also home of the Express Personnel Clydesdales.

Yukon is just 20 minutes away from Oklahoma City’s Bricktown, RedHawks Baseball, Oklahoma River events and NBA Thunder games.