Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Amorita, OK

Amorita is a small incorporated town in northern Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, founded in September 1901.

The town was established by the Choctaw Northern Railroad — the first railroad built in the county — about two miles north of the existing town of Byron, and city lots went on sale when the line was completed in November 1901.

Amorita is believed to have been named for the wife of railroad owner Charles E. Ingersoll.

At its founding Amorita lay in the much larger Woods County; it became part of the new Alfalfa County when Oklahoma became a state in 1907.

Within a month of the lot sale, Amorita had a butcher shop and a coal and grain business, and by February 1902 two grain elevators were operating in the farming community.

Residents voted to incorporate Amorita in May 1912, and in 1919 voters approved a fifty-thousand-dollar bond to construct a new school building for the area's consolidated schools.

The railroad abandoned its line through Amorita in 1936, and in the 1960s the Amorita school was consolidated along with the nearby Burlington, Byron and Driftwood districts.

Amorita's population peaked at 208 in the 1940 census and has declined in almost every decade since.

The 2020 census counted just 38 residents in Amorita, living in 12 households — a slight rebound from 37 in 2010.

The town covers only about a quarter of a square mile along State Highway 58, between Byron to the south and the Kansas state line to the north.