Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Bridgeport, OK

Bridgeport is a town in northern Caddo County, Oklahoma, that took its name from the toll bridge over the Canadian River at that point.

Bridgeport's post office was established in February 1895 in a store at the south end of the toll bridge, six years before the town itself existed.

Bridgeport began in 1901 on a federal townsite and incorporated in 1902, booming as a tent town when the Caddo and Wichita lands were opened to settlement that year.

Bridgeport counted 462 residents in 1907 and 428 in the 1910 census, when the Canadian River crossing made it an important shipping point for surrounding farms.

George Kay's Key Bridge, built across the Canadian River in 1921, stole the crossing traffic from Bridgeport's old toll bridge, and the state bought the Key Bridge in 1930 and ended the tolls.

Bridgeport is an old U.S. Route 66 town that was bypassed in 1933 when the highway was realigned over the famous Pony Bridge, and Interstate 40's 1958 river bridge moved the highway more than a mile south of town.

Bridgeport is built on the south side of the Canadian River valley, overlooking its floodplain on Caddo County's northern border with Blaine County.

Wheat and cotton farming sustained Bridgeport's economy for most of its history.

Bridgeport still has its own 9.6-mile branch of the AT&L Railroad running to Geary, hauling grain, fertilizer and other agriculture-related products.

Bridgeport's population has shrunk to a fraction of its boom-era size — the 2020 census counted 97 residents in 48 households, down from 116 people in 2010.