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Hooker is a city in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, about 20 miles northeast of Guymon at the intersection of U.S. Highways 54 and 64.

Hooker is named for John "Hooker" Threlkeld, a foreman on the OX Ranch who came to the area in 1873, and the name frequently appears on lists of unusual American place names.

Hooker leans into its name with the official town motto: "It's a Location, Not a Vocation."

Hooker lies in the strip once known as "No Man's Land," which sat outside every territory's boundaries until it was attached to Oklahoma Territory in 1890.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway laid tracks through the Hooker area in 1902, the post office was designated that same year, and the Chicago Townsite Company organized the sale of town lots in 1904.

Hooker had a population of 1,802 at the 2020 census, living in 636 households, about 76% of them owner-occupied; about 44.6% of residents identified as Hispanic or Latino.

The Hooker Advance newspaper has served the town continuously since 1904.

Hooker has a dry high-plains climate, averaging only about 19 inches of precipitation and roughly 17 inches of snow a year, and it has recorded a high of 112 °F.

The historic wood-frame grain elevator standing at the northern edge of Hooker is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hooker's population peaked at 1,918 in 2010, having grown from just 448 residents in 1907, the year of Oklahoma statehood.