Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Binger, OK

Binger is a town in northeastern Caddo County, located in the valley of Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Washita River, at the junction of U.S. Route 281 and State Highway 152.

Binger was established immediately after the opening of the Wichita-Caddo Reservation in August 1901 and was organized by the Washita Valley Townsite Company.

The town was named for Binger Hermann, then Commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office, and its post office opened in November 1901.

Binger is the headquarters of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, whose people were settled in the surrounding area in the 1870s, and the tribal complex includes the Caddo Nation Heritage Museum, opened in 2001.

Binger's early economy rested on the surrounding farms, whose principal crops were peanuts and cotton, and the Enid and Anadarko Railway built through town in 1901–02 before the line was abandoned in 1939.

The Binger Journal, a weekly newspaper, began publishing in 1902, and the town had 257 residents by statehood in 1907.

Binger's population peaked at 849 in the 1930 census; the 2020 census counted 438 people in 177 households, with a notably older median age of 50.6 years.

Binger is famous as the boyhood home of Johnny Bench, the Hall of Fame catcher of the Cincinnati Reds' 'Big Red Machine,' who was valedictorian of his class at Binger High School; the town honors him with the Johnny Bench Museum next to City Hall.