Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Foyil, OK

Foyil is a small town in Rogers County in northeastern Oklahoma, sitting on historic Route 66 about ten miles northeast of Claremore.

The town was named for Alfred Foyil, a former Confederate courier who settled in the area in 1875 and became the town's first postmaster and a leading local landowner.

Foyil was incorporated in 1910, at which time it had about 150 residents.

The 2020 census counted 368 people in Foyil living in 133 households.

Foyil was the hometown of Andy Payne, a Cherokee runner who won the 1928 Transcontinental Footrace, nicknamed the 'Bunion Derby,' racing on foot from Los Angeles to New York City along the new Route 66.

Payne covered the 3,423.5-mile course in 573 hours, 4 minutes, and 34 seconds spread over 84 days, won the $25,000 first prize, and used the money to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm.

Foyil renamed its main street Andy Payne Boulevard in his honor, and a bronze statue of Payne running stands in a park beside Route 66 in town.

Four miles east of Foyil stands Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park, where retired folk artist Ed Galloway built the world's largest concrete totem pole, more than 90 feet tall, in the 1940s and 1950s; the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

A Texaco filling station that opened on Andy Payne Boulevard in 1926 is among the oldest Texaco stations still standing on Route 66 and has been restored.

Foyil also produced NFL kicker Josh Brown, who grew up in town playing eight-man football before reaching Super Bowl XL with the Seattle Seahawks.