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Minco is a city in northern Grady County, Oklahoma, whose city limits extend north to the Canadian River, which forms the border with Canadian County.

Present-day Minco began as Silver City, a tent settlement on the Chisholm Trail that housed Caddo, Wichita, Kiowa and Comanche tribesmen, about seven miles east of the current townsite.

When the Rock Island railroad extended its track to the Chisholm Trail, the town physically picked up and moved to the end of the rail line and renamed itself Minco.

Minco is believed to be named after the great Chickasaw chief and warrior Itawamba Minco, who later acquired the name Levi Colbert, and the community was originally part of the Chickasaw Nation.

Minco's post office opened in July 1890, well before Oklahoma statehood, and the first railroad reached the town that same year, built by the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway.

When Chickasaw Nation land was opened to white settlement on August 4, 1901, Minco became a railroad hub for the entire surrounding region.

The 2020 census counted 1,500 people in Minco, an 8.1 percent decrease from the 1,632 residents counted in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Minco's 1,672 residents lived in 658 households.

Minco covers an unusually large 12.3 square miles for a town of its size, nearly all of it land.

U.S. Route 81 passes through the center of Minco, leading south about 19 miles to Chickasha, the Grady County seat, while State Highway 37 runs east to Tuttle.