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Jet is a town in southeast Alfalfa County in north-central Oklahoma, 12 miles east-southeast of Cherokee, the county seat.

Jet was founded by six unmarried brothers — Joseph, Trigg, Newt, Warner, John, and Richard Jett — who established homesteads in the former Cherokee Outlet shortly after its 1893 opening and opened a general store on Richard's land.

The Jet post office was established in 1894, with Warner Jett as the first postmaster, and the town incorporated in 1900.

In 1905–1906 the Frisco Townsite Company surveyed a new townsite about two miles west of the original, and the whole town of Jet relocated to be on the railroad.

By statehood in 1907 Jet had 213 residents and boasted Baptist, Mennonite, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, seven general stores, two banks, and two hotels.

Jet's population peaked at 442 in 1940; the 2020 census counted 197 residents.

At the 2000 census, Jet had 230 residents living in 115 households.

Jet's economy has been based on farming since its founding — chiefly wheat, livestock, and poultry.

Tourism bolsters Jet's economy thanks to the nearby Great Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1930, where visitors dig for hourglass-shaped selenite crystals on the salt flats.

Jet-Nash High School served Jet until it closed in 2013 for lack of funding; Jet students now attend the Timberlake Regional School District.