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Dickson is a town in eastern Carter County, bordered on the west by Ardmore, the county seat, and part of the Ardmore micropolitan statistical area.

Before Oklahoma statehood, the Dickson area lay in Pickens County of the Chickasaw Nation, and the settlement formed around what is now the junction of U.S. Highway 177 and State Highway 199.

Dickson and its school district are named for A. E. Dickson, the longtime Carter County school superintendent, honored when the Dickson Consolidated School District was established in 1923.

Dickson was not incorporated as a town until 1968, unusually late for Oklahoma, after 1960s highway improvements created a need for formal municipal government.

Dickson is one of Oklahoma's most spread-out small towns: it covers about 14.1 square miles, yet the Census Bureau classifies 100 percent of its residents as rural.

Dickson has grown at every census since 1970, rising from 798 people that year to 1,331 in the 2020 census.

Dickson's 1,331 residents lived in 508 households in 2020.

Several rural Carter County schools have consolidated into the Dickson school district, which covers about 128 square miles and is one of the largest districts in Oklahoma by land area.

Dickson High School has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.

Dickson's cross country team won the state championship three years in a row in the mid-1990s, and its powerlifting team won the Oklahoma Large-School team championship in 2008.