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Goodwell is a town in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, located on U.S. Highway 54 about ten miles southwest of the county seat of Guymon.

Goodwell began in 1901 as a switch on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and it was named Goodwell because a "good well" of water was found at the site.

The town of Goodwell was formally established in 1903 and celebrated its centennial in 2003.

Goodwell is home to Oklahoma Panhandle State University, which was founded in 1909 as the Pan-Handle Agricultural Institute and took its current name in 1974.

The university dominates town life: Goodwell's median age in the 2020 census was just 22.6 years, one of the youngest of any Oklahoma town, because so many residents are students.

The 2020 census counted 951 residents in Goodwell, down from the town's peak population of 1,467 in 1970.

Goodwell had 310 households and 429 housing units in the 2020 census, with more than a quarter of its homes standing vacant between school terms.

Goodwell is home to the No Man's Land Museum, established in 1932 as a project of the college's science department to preserve the history of the Panhandle strip once known as No Man's Land.

At 3,304 feet above sea level, Goodwell has a cold semi-arid climate and has recorded extremes of 112 degrees Fahrenheit in June 2011 and minus 22 degrees in January 1959.

Texas County, where Goodwell sits, is the second-largest county in Oklahoma by land area and was named for the state of Texas, which adjoins it to the south.