Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Cement, OK

Cement is a town in southeastern Caddo County, Oklahoma, situated along U.S. Highway 277 and State Highway 19, approximately fifty-one miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Cement received its name in 1902 from workers at a nearby cement mill, built in 1901 by the Acme Cement and Plaster Company.

The mill's owners hoped to make cement from the local gypsum rock, but the crushed gypsum was instead used for plaster in house construction, and gypsum was still being mined locally and shipped as ore or sheetrock a century later in 2002.

Cement was served by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, and gypsum mining and the oil industry have been mainstays of the town alongside farming and ranching.

Oil wells drilled in the Cement area as early as 1917 remain productive, and the Cement oil field had grown to about one hundred producing wells by 1924.

Cement was a rowdy town until Oklahoma statehood in 1907 brought prohibition.

The Cement Historical Museum features James gang lore in its Jesse James Visitors Center, located on the second floor of the museum building.

Cement was at its largest during the 1920s oil boom: its population rose from 618 in 1907 to 1,098 in 1920 and peaked at 1,117 in 1930.

The 2020 census counted 436 people in Cement, down from 501 in 2010, and by the early 2000s the town was primarily a retirement community.

Cement covers only about 0.46 square miles of land in Caddo County.