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Drumright is a city in northwestern Creek County, Oklahoma (with a small portion in Payne County), at the junction of State Highways 16, 33 and 99, and its motto is Oklahoma's Boomtown.

Drumright sprang up almost overnight in 1912 after wildcatter Thomas B. Tom Slick struck oil on Frank Wheeler's farm, completing the Wheeler Number One well in March 1912 - the first producing well of the Cushing-Drumright Field.

Drumright's post office was established on December 28, 1912, landowners James W. Fulkerson and Aaron Drumright platted the townsite on January 28, 1913, and voters incorporated the town that May.

Oil workers flooded in so fast that they lived in tents and boxcar shacks, earning the young town the local nickname Ragtown.

At the height of the boom Drumright's population was estimated at fifteen thousand or more, and the first federal census in 1920 counted 6,460 residents.

The Cushing-Drumright Field was the most prolific early oil field in Oklahoma: daily production peaked at 310,000 barrels in May 1915, and in 1919 the field produced seventeen percent of all the oil in the United States.

Drumright was designated a first-class city on April 18, 1916, at a time when the field around it had already produced wealth that reshaped the Oklahoma oil industry.

The town declined as oil production waned during the Depression, and a large refinery on its edge closed in the 1950s.

The Drumright Historical Museum, also known as the Drumright Oil Museum, is housed in the town's 1915 Santa Fe Depot, a National Register of Historic Places site filled with oil-field artifacts.

Three other Drumright oil sites are on the National Register: the Wheeler Number One Oil Well Site, the Barnett Jackson Number 11 Oil Well Site and the Drumright Gasoline Plant Number 2.