Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Frederick Frederick, OK

Frederick is the county seat and largest city of Tillman County in southwestern Oklahoma, an agriculture-based community that primarily produces wheat, cotton and cattle.

Frederick began as two separate towns, Gosnell and Hazel, both established in 1901 when the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation was opened to settlement — among the last Oklahoma Territory lands to be opened.

Gosnell and Hazel merged in 1902 to take advantage of the Blackwell, Enid and Southwestern Railway, and the combined town was named Frederick, after the son of a railroad executive; Hazel's residents moved north to the new townsite.

President Theodore Roosevelt visited Frederick in April 1905 to meet Jack 'Catch-'em-alive' Abernathy, the famed barehanded wolf hunter, during a wolf hunt that introduced the area's recreational appeal.

Frederick incorporated in 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state, and was named the seat of the newly created Tillman County.

The Frederick Army Air Field opened in 1941, training pilots to fly UC-78 light transports and B-25 medium bombers; the base became Frederick Regional Airport in 1953, and its restored World War II hangars now house the World War II Airborne Demonstration Team.

Frederick's population peaked at 6,153 in 1980; the 2020 census counted 3,468 residents.

Frederick has 1,352 households, and about 75% of its homes are owner-occupied.

About a third (34%) of Frederick's residents are Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2020 census.

The Ramona Theatre, built in 1929, is a Spanish Colonial-style 'atmospheric' theater on the National Register of Historic Places, its ceiling painted as a midnight-blue sky with electric twinkling stars and rolling clouds.